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...pared so sharply as in Belgium. Yet last week Elder Statesman Theunis, backed by two of Belgium's richest men. Minister Without Portfolio Emile Francqui (banks, copper) and Finance Minister Camille Gutt (Katanga Copper), pared 5% more off Government pensions and salaries, 50%, off rent allowances, a big slice off relief allowances to the provinces...
...which the chief used in testing out the strength of his tribesmen. When he brought in a whale, the Indians formed a circle around the chief, and he hurled the ball at them. When any brave dropped it, he was "out." The last man remaining got an especially large slice of the catch as prize...
...Again the New Deal administration convicts itself of the charge of using Federal relief funds for political purposes and as a substitute for a campaign fund. Curiously enough every State except Maine received a slice. Maine has already voted. Maine, under the Farley plan of Tammanyizing the country, manifestly is recorded as having had hers...
Race results reached the U. S. about 10 a. m. that day. Wychwood Abbot, a horse, had come from behind to beat Commander III, also a horse, by a half length. Highlander was third. For the U. S. that meant the biggest slice of sweepstakes prizes it had ever won. Total receipts of the lottery had been about $16,000,000, of which an estimated $3,750,000 had gone from the U. S. Back now to the U. S. in prizes would come some $2,600,000, of which the U. S. Government expects to collect about...
General Motor's Fisher Body Corp. is the largest consumer of hardwood in the U. S. It requires between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 ft. annually. With furniture and building in the dumps, a small slice of an order by Fisher will keep an average mill operating for months. Yet the Hardwood Code allows no discount on even the whopping Fisher orders...