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Motor Workers. As decided last year in Detroit, the A. F. of L.'s next big task is to unionize the automobile industry. This work is well afoot...
...Last week 20,000 veterans of the war with Spain gathered from all states. A flock of automobiles was waiting to carry them down the streets, but the old soldiers laughed. "To hell with those things," they remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and marched afoot along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead...
...enormous expense. When completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
...issue of April 18 the Yale Daily News anticipated a movement already set afoot to arrange a second annual joint concert of the combined Harvard and Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation...
...supplying all its own celluloid features from the merged studios of First National, Pathe and Director DeMille, with the Producer's Distributing Corp. to determine when and where who shall laugh or weep at what. Scenting the arrival of mammoth theatres, the Fox Film Corp. also has plans afoot-30 first-run theatres, to cost five to twelve millions each and seat four or five thousand people each, with stores and office buildings adjoining, in major U. S. cities...