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Washington. Ten years after the collapse of "Galloping Gertie," their suspension bridge over the Puget Sound Narrows, the citizens of Tacoma dedicated another and bigger $18 million bridge of the same type, built on the old piers. Engineers boasted that it was 58 times stronger than the previous one. Nickname: "Sturdy Gertie...
...reorganized the courts to make justice available to the poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed: "It is not the end of civilization :>ut the beginning, tumultuous and fecund...
...students find that they are better equipped to understand and deal with workers after they have held the worker's type of non-specialized job," co-director. Mrs. Roberts explained. "The best way to appreciate the endurance and difficulty of the lowest paid job is to hold one," she continued. "We follow the theory that often a person finds he learns more about the functioning of an organization when working at the lower level, than he does when employed in a white collar...
...varsity experienced little difficulty cracking the freshman line, but it should be noted that the Yardlings were using an Army-type defense which they learned on Monday and which was thus unfamiliar to them. By the time the second and third string varsity teams took over, the freshmen had settled down and were able to make the varsity extend itself for yardage...
According to McCarthy, Monday will not open an all out campaign, but just a type of tagging like the sporadic outbursts of last year...