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...Immigration and Bureau of Naturalization, put 275 employes out of work. The Interior Department took over all military parks, cemeteries and monuments, including the Statue of Liberty which had been in the Army's possession since 1886. Abolished was that butt of many jests, the National Screw Thread Commission created in 1918 to standardize nuts & bolts. Establishment of a unified Treasury agency for all government purchases was postponed until...
...Contracting. Monthly employment was cut from 206 to 150 hours, with minimum wages equaling those paid by State Highway Commissions (29? to 41? per hr.). Subcontractors were required to obey the code. "Bid peddling" was outlawed. President Roosevelt last week issued orders putting the rayon, silk and thread industries under the cotton textile code at their own request. He also gave General Johnson a permanent appointment as Industrial Administrator.† General Johnson fixed his own salary at $6,000 per year. Meanwhile the possibility of a temporary blanket code for all industry hung over Washington and the nation all last...
...with a Montauk captain costs $50. but you can take three or four others along and split the price. Tackle is provided, consisting usually of a 16-oz. rod, a reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take...
This Is America. In the past five years there have been released in the U. S. more than a dozen travelog and animal films like Goona-Goona, Rango, Douglas Fairbanks' Around the World in 80 Minutes, through all of which ran a story's thread. From Russia have come nonfictional propaganda pictures (Turksib, Ten Days That Shook the World). The War Department and private producers have shown War films (Powder River, The Big Drive), and before that Emanuel Cohen of Pathe News exhibited a three-reeler called Flashes of the Past. Such was the meagre history...
...driving run to Pulpit Harbor old salts gasped at the President's dexterity in zig-zagging the Amberjack II, rail down and all canvas drawing, through a labyrinth of coastal islands. Even the agile destroyers could not thread the risky channel at such breakneck speed, had to take to open water...