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Wages. Leaves present power to freeze wages virtually unchanged. A Wage Stabilization Board will continue to have authority to make "readjustments" upward through the ceilings...
...your July 16 story "The Bell of Kamela" we have a new variation of a perennial hoax. Older examples include the story of the Confederate general who, returning from the wars, stashed his sword in the fork of a young tree, whence it "grew" upward along with the tree only to be found long afterward, high above the ground, by the general's grandson. Now we hear of a cowbell which, tied by a pioneer to a young sapling, is found presumably 73 years later at the top of a towering ponderosa pine...
...bore. At the first step of the red-carpeted dais before the throne, he stopped, turned, and bowed right & left. A hush hung over the chamber ; the young man's black shoes glistened in the subdued light. He raised his right hand with two long, slim fingers pointing upward and in a tensely precise voice, he vowed: "I swear to observe the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people, to maintain their national independence and the integrity of the territory...
...pictures testify to Gromaire's neck-cricking wonder at the upward thrust of the skyscrapers. One of the best catches the silhouette of an old landmark, Trinity Church, against the spectacular escarpments of Wall Street. Says Gromaire: "Now I am completely exhausted, like a mother after childbirth. If you asked me to paint just one more picture about America, I couldn't do it." As for living and working in Manhattan, Gromaire shakes his head. "New York is astonishing, but so are the Himalayas. I wouldn't like to spend the rest of my life...
...catapult officer's hand described a series of red circles in the darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...