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Since Wright Patman began his anti-chain-store crusade in 1935, the stores have read little good news. But last week Utah gave them some. The citizens rared up and threw an anti-chain tax for a loss. By Utah's constitution, a petition of 10% of the voters can set aside any law, make it subject to a Statewide referendum. To force suspension of their new chain-store tax, Utah voters used this right for the first time...
...National Defense Mediation Board this week threw up its hands and for the first time admitted defeat. It had shattered its shining lance on a pile of coal. For nearly a month, while operators and miners wrangled, virtually no soft coal had been mined. Emergency supplies had dwindled by the hour, while steelmakers, munition makers, shipbuilders cursed. "Criminal" was the word OPM's angry William Knudsen used two weeks ago to describe any stoppage in the defense program. Shocking, at least, were the figures which showed what had happened as the result of the stoppage in coal...
...cooled engine. Republic designers declared the new P47 (to go into production in a new factory within a few weeks) would top 400 miles an hour, would have a fighting altitude of 40,000 ft. Apparently the Air Corps was convinced that the P47 was good enough, for it threw overboard its policy of buying mostly liquid-cooled pursuits. Before the ship ever flew (but after a lower-powered design had been tested) Republic had a $56,500,000 order, biggest pursuit contract the Air Corps ever signed...
...Harvard students threw themselves off the Weeks Bridge over the Charles River. Well, no, they didn't exactly THROW themselves over--if we know those Harvard kids, they dived and had a couple of friends close at hand (just in case) with a rowboat and a quart of Scotch. They think ahead, those Harvard lads. --From the Sunday Advertiser...
Jimmy Roosevelt threw Paulette Goddard and the entire Heidt Brigade into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...