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...real sensations of the Spring has been the unparalleled swift ness with which the output of pig iron has been curtailed. From the depth of the 1921 depression, pig production climbed fairly steadily until May, 1923, when it stood at 3,876,694 tons. From there it slumped to 2,920,982 tons in December last, and then rallied to 3,-466,086 tons last March. April, 1924, however, showed a reduction to 3,233,428 tons, and new figures for last May reveal the astonishing drop to 2,615,110 tons. From an average daily output...
Five weeks before the Republican National Convention Mr. Coolidge announced that he had chosen William M. Butler to be the next Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The unusually early date of the announcement was interpreted as a swift kick to speed the retiring Chairman (John T. Adams), who had supported Daugherty and Denby and generally annoyed the President. Last week Mr. Adams said his adieus...
WINE OF FURY?Leigh Rogers? Knopf ($2.50). Against the black and bloody canvas of the Russian Revolution, this story rises sombre and of more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor...
...unprejudiced observer wishes nothing but success to Miss Crane, and to any others of a like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time...
...type of delivery in which a swift ball is aimed at or close to the batter's head to shake his nerve, drive him away from the plate?or knock...