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...accept its resignation. And a young King can scarcely take that high-handed line. While the Queen groaned and her mother murmured Swedish prayers, the Premier decided to risk a vote of confidence on his program of deflation, reduced taxes and smaller dole payments. Vexed, a few Liberals split off from the Catholic-Liberal coalition and the Catholic Premier went down on the first bill by the narrow vote of 83 to 79. He sped to the Royal Palace, bent on resigning with his Cabinet. By that time the Queen had reached her crisis...
Because Postmaster General Farley decreed that no airline holding a mail contract may have a manufacturing affiliate, United Aircraft & Transport Corp., most potent ($30,000,000) U. S. aviation holding company, last week announced plans to split three ways. To take over the assets & liabilities of its various operating and manufacturing subsidiaries three new, independent corporations will be formed -one transport company, one eastern equipment company, one western equipment company. This reorganization was pledged by United when it bid for mail contracts last month. In that scramble it was the most successful competing company, recapturing...
...lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...
...keep his plants oiled and humming by sales not only to his own government but to foreign markers in which he is able to foment enough suspicion to sell large bills of goods. Here is the rock upon which every private conference that precedes official disarmament conferences has split. Here the circle closes. So long as we must have armaments we must lend rein and scope to the business methods of the armorers. What happened at Briey, considered in this light, was very simple: the mere working out of the profit system in armaments to its perfect, logical, and ultimate...
...drought and fair weather had hopelessly split the delegates. And Britain's Sir Herbert Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named...