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Guess mr. Carmers next book will be entitled Sudden Departure or why I left Alabama so quickly, I won't say anymore becus I no Mr. carmer will want to reveal all in his next book, that oughta...
Reason for the sudden peace was that Harry Bridges, Australian chairman of the strike committee, had told his followers that they could not fight machine-guns and bayonets. The President's strike board, Archbishop Hanna, Lawyer Cushing and Assistant Secretary of Labor Mcgrady sat powerless. Nominally the only issue between the employers and longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because...
...Italian squadron of 19 war boats entered the Albanian harbor of Durazzo and cast anchor. Scared Albanians begged particulars which Admiral Cantu, somewhat embarrassed, seemed unable to give. "The relations between Italy and Albania are so friendly," he asserted, "that there is nothing unusual about our visit, sudden though...
...waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found murdered also, a dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed...
...hogs, corn, cotton, sugar, many another commodity, actually continued to decline until almost the end of last year, hardly moved off bottom until this spring. But by last week the Annalist index "in U. S. dollars" was pushing into the highest ground in more than three years. Despite a sudden rush of profit-taking which once again tumbled wheat below $1 per bushel and unsettled all cereals, corn soared to 58? (last year: 45?). Three successive winters favorable to chinch bugs had raised Corn Belt infestation to menacing proportions. Officials had counted as high as 5,000 pests...