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...dismissed from the team for "homesickness"' because "homesickness is a contagious disease." Finally, as a grand climax, he was elected to the International Olympic Committee to replace New Orleans' Ernest Lee Jahncke, onetime (1929-33) U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who had loudly objected last autumn to sending a U. S. Olympic team to Nazi Germany...
...consumers to buy more than they need at the moment, but the insistent and unseasonal demand for metal from U. S. industry has amazed the most sanguine observers. Operations entered August at 71¼% of capacity, highest level in six years. Prospects of a general business upsurge in the autumn are so bright that a brief reaction in steel operations, originally expected last month but now predicted before Labor Day, would probably clear up what little excess steel inventory there is. In Pittsburgh last week the price ol steel scrap forged ahead 50? to $15.25 per ton-a significant portent...
...would fill a freight train some ten miles long, will net the U. S. Government about $1,300,000 in postage. Although they consist entirely of advertising, they provide abundant fireside entertainment for 14,000,000 people. From Chicago fanwise over the world last week began to spread the autumn and winter editions of the mail order catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and of Montgomery Ward...
...autumn Amoskeag's visible doom had aroused both State and City to consultations. Governor Bridges' textile committee pointed out that one of the immediate reasons for Amoskeag's inability to do business was a heavy burden of fixed charges. Applying for a 77B reorganization in December, Treasurer Dumaine proposed to lighten this load by getting holders of Amoskeag's outstanding $11,000,000 in bonds to exchange them for stock. Nearly half the bondholders, however, chose to take cash instead of new securities-more cash than the company could pay. The March flood completed Amoskeag...
Disturbing to Manchester is a bond-holder's suit, still pending, which argues that a court in Massachusetts has no jurisdiction over a New Hampshire firm. If this contention should be upheld in the autumn, Manchester citizens fear that more months of legal bickering would delay the start of new enterprises in the Amoskeag mills. Ever since the mills closed a Manchester Citizens' Committee has been trying to find purchasers or lessors for all or part of the Amoskeag plant...