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...this might well have worried Wilhelm Keitel. Before Joseph Stalin's words were out of his mouth the commands were being carried out, for underground work is the one job at which the Bolsheviks are world champions...
...Britain? Does the President mean to let Britain go after all? His declaration of aid for Russia did not support this view. But the theory that he would revert to a new, super-New Deal isolationism if he came to believe Britain's cause hopeless has seeped underground in Washington for a long time. It flourished among New Dealers even during periods when the President, being assailed as a warmonger, was damning isolationism. They chattered that: 1) the President decided after Dunkirk that Britain could not win; 2) if Britain falls, the U.S. will painlessly acquire most...
...half million subway riders in New York City last week faced the imminent threat of a strike in the underground transportation systems. City Government and labor leaders, howling bad cess at one another, had quarrelel themselves into a deadlock. The point at issue was fundamental to Government and union labor: have State or municipal employes a right to strike? The same question, in different terms, had been debated before-notably in Boston, Mass., when in 1919 Governor Calvin Coolidge called out the State Guard to break a policemen's strike. In New York City the situation was more complicated...
...terminal for Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, 4) a health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances and combination sunken-garden and retail shopping areas...
...largest single non-Government borrowing ever attempted was announced last week: to finance a huge $400,000,000 expansion program (including new transcontinental cables buried three feet underground), American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said it would offer its 630,902 stockholders $234,000,000 in convertible debentures...