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Shrewd friend of diplomats and financiers is Count Giuseppe Volpi Di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance. Although a shipping enterprise brought Count Volpi his first wealth, his chief interest now is not water to bear his vessels, but water to spin the turbines of the vast hydro-electric enterprises which he controls. Recently, intent upon the development of a gigantic European electric power system, he decided he needed U. S. capital. Last week he and his associates finished a far-reaching deal with Americans who had capital, were glad to spend it for power in Europe...
...Columbus, the wheels of governmental action were given a spin. Shocked by 16 school child fatalities from Ohio motor accidents in the past month, Governor Myers Y. Cooper wrote a stern letter to Director of Education John L. Clifton. Said he: "It is evident that these accidents were avoidable if proper precautions had been taken." The Director of Education, in turn, urged two-man bus crews, strict vigilance at grade crossings. The dead driver of the Brook Park bus was held culpable by the coroner...
Half a million sturdy Lancashire cotton folk had ceased to spin and weave. Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12½% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...
...orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark, stubborn battle of wills between a Labor Monopoly and a Capital Monopoly...
...temperature the flier ungoggled his eyes, the better to watch his instruments. He was dizzy but he pushed the plane slowly through a last thousand feet. At 39,140 ft. he finally pushed it too far. The nose whipped over; the plane plunged 2,000 ft. in a spin. Then the new holder of the altitude record took control of the machine once more, brought it and himself to earth unharmed, 1¼ hrs. after leaving...