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...handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which the researchers want them to eat. The strike is broken by shining a powerful light in their cages, which attracts them upward from the floor. They cannot cling to the glass walls and tops of the cages, so are forced to settle on the plants. Once there they give up and start eating...
...held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another of national concern: the upward spiral of commodity prices. He was visited by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, spokesman for other U. S. mayors, who protested a new PWA rule which requires all of the Federal grants for Public Works projects to be spent on relief labor. This was followed by a visit from a delegation of the House of Representatives who wanted to appropriate $300,000,000 more for PWA, which now has only $155,000,000 left to spend. To both, Franklin Roosevelt answered...
...General Motors sit-downs which were embarrassing union leaders last week showed that plain workers, awakened to a sense of their own power, were taking the new weapon in their own hands. Aghast at wholesale seizure of private property, some jittery souls were calling the Sit-Down a step upward communism. To calmer observers, the sit-downer's fierce assertion of a proprietary right in his own job seemed more like communism's antithesis, an uncalculated species of simple anarchy. In asserting that right, the sit-downer did not lack for articulate defenders. Even Son James Roosevelt took...
While a timely warning against the inflationary upward spiral in commodities was admittedly in order, President Roosevelt moved onto spongy ground in some of his examples and explanations. Commenting on the President's observation that trouble followed when the curve of durable goods industries passed the curve of consumer goods industries, Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres noted: "The recovery in durable goods is always faster than in nondurable goods. ... It is true that improvement in durable goods is greater than in nondurable, but it is also true that most of the men still unemployed need...
...checking his shutter adjustment, squinting at the cloud-scudded sky, gazing with concern at the second launch below the bridge. The man in the helmet stood on the running board, slipped out of his topcoat, stepped quickly over the guard rail, facing inward at the bridge. He glanced upward to the cameraman above him, then down to the water 185 feet below. He choked his breath halfway in his throat and, in the instant, jumped backwards into space...