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...period of grace. Also aroused over Erie's situation last week was Senator Burton Wheeler whose investigation of railroads was proceeding busily (see p. 53). While Jesse Jones wants to save all major railroads, Senator Wheeler favors letting weak roads, however important, "go through the wringer." Irked at the ICC's allowing RFC to aid H. & O. and its willingness to aid Erie, Senator Wheeler last week demanded that the ICC be reorganized because in creating RFC Congress "never in-tended to pour public funds into the bottomless pit of badly financed railroads...
...girl living at home the estimate was $20.70. This was of course pure theory, since the New York laundry industry for which the budget was prepared pays its female help as low as $6 per week and an average of $13. The board would be quickly put through the wringer if it attempted at one stroke to double any industry's wage scale...
There were four others, but because of his journalistic past and his beribboned spectacles and his imposing paunch, Mr. Beamish received most attention from the press. For six months he proceeded to put Pennsylvania utilities, in his own phrase, "through the wringer." The rates of Philadelphia Electric Co., for example, were lowered so as to reduce its revenue more than $3,000,000 a year. And last week he was feeling especially satisfied, for in a wild scene that would not have been out of place in a comic opera, he had at last succeeded in humiliating his old antipathy...
...becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three dimensions. Nothing in a Disney cinema is ever entirely dead, nothing ever dies, nothing is impossible...
Help In Holland, Ohio, a telephone operator complied with a request to send help to a subscriber whose dog had become entangled in a clothes wringer...