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...South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage of Musicas...
From the lyrical description of "Saltwater Farm," Coffin has turned to a portrayal of those Maine people who "still live by the skin of their teeth, on wind-pudding and small potatoes and few on a hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic...
Killed by automobiles on U. S. highways, last year were 39,500 people, some 2,000 more than the number of U. S. soldiers killed in action in the World War. This year's safety campaign has thus far achieved a 21% saving in sudden death. Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance...
Although the Italian colonial demands on France are not likely to precipitate an immediate war crisis i Europe, this sudden irredentist campaign for Tunisia and Corsica gains added significance in its relation to the Rome-Berlin axis. That Mussolini should pick a fight with Paris at the very moment the Reich has signed a Franco-German Agreement indicates that the interests of the two dictators are diverging. As junior partner in the axis, Italy must rely more on German support than Germany on Italian support. Thus, while Mussolini had no choice but to swallow the distasteful Austrian "Anschluss," Hitler...
...such extent that they will be able to enter the stratosphere, come to this country, drop their destructive bombs of shrapnel and gas on an unsuspecting people and return to their country without ever being seen May Orson Welles have taught us a lesson in his portrayal of a sudden attack on America...