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...jobs from 220,000 to 255,000. New York City's WPAdministrator Victor Ridder despairingly cried that, because most remaining employables without jobs were unskilled, he did not see how he could possibly do it. "It appears that we are getting down to the end of the string," said he. "The city seems to have reached the saturation point in WPA projects...
With a wealth of material on hand for what he thinks will be the strongest team in years, Harold Uhlen, Varsity swimming coach, considers his chances of breaking Yale's long string of victories unusually good...
...Department 'of Commerce let "all owners of ships under mortgage to the Government" know that "the carrying of essential war materials ... is distinctly contrary to the policy of the Government." Off the record, New Dealers said that almost every U. S. merchant ship today has a Government mortgage string tied to it in one way or another, added that the President is prepared to jerk the strings...
...Strings. U. S. critics of the Islands' release complain that all Commonwealth status did was to give the Filipinos the governing power and the U. S. the worries. Actually, the sections of H. R. 8573 which define the rights of both States is extremely cautious about giving the Commonwealth any authority which might be hazardous to U. S. interests. All monetary laws, all loans from foreign countries, all legislation dealing with external trade and immigration are subject to the U. S. President's approval. Until final independence ten years hence, the final court of Philippine appeal is still...
...visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact strands like strings of sausages, and as string after string was laid down on the cell wall they merged so neatly with the gelatinous cement that the structure looked completely homogeneous unless the cement were dissolved. Aware now of the double structure of cellulose and able to study the two components separately, organic...