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...opponent to stand up against him had to be able to hit hard and must not be afraid of him. Braddock had not been afraid but he had not been able to hit hard, so he was knocked out. Before the fight, Farr's stock reached almost zero level with the prizefight public when he posed for a picture with onetime Champion Braddock, onetime Champion Max Baer, onetime Contender Harry Wills, as his "advisers" (see cut). In the fight,' however, Joe Louis did not hit as hard or as accurately as the experts thought he would and Farr...
...providing Germany with a million fully-equipped troops, faced with the expense of a grandiose public-works scheme, shrewd conservative Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics, has long been doing sleight of hand with Germany's foreign trade. With gold in the Reichsbank dwindling toward zero, Germany, since the rise of raw-material prices in 1935, has had to export finished goods at uneconomical prices in order to get currency to buy abroad such raw materials-copper, tin, oil-as she cannot manufacture synthetically...
...furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land...
...biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero. In his last term he decided "the country could be ruled by boys for all he cared." He was now free to settle down abroad to complete his history, wait for relatives to die to solve his financial problems, bask in the attention paid him by Europe's greatest authors...
Fearing this application of the anti-trust laws to labor disputes could be easily broadened into a major strikebreaking weapon, Labor proposed to carry the Apex case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meantime the Apex officials gave the sit-downers 24 hours to evacuate the plant. As the zero hour approached, Philadelphia's Mayor Wilson persuaded the sit-downers to leave peacefully, led them out in person. After one look at the plant. Apex officials rushed back to the Courts claiming that on the last day the sit-downers had wrecked the mill from office to basement...