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...event saddened many, it surprised few. As she aged, the Mauretania grew more & more expensive to operate. Two years ago her owners painted her famed old hull white, sent her on West Indies cruises. Last autumn she was tied up at Southampton with a skeleton crew aboard. In January the crew was dismissed, the four big stacks covered over, the 70,000-h.p. turbines shut down...
Chrysler Corp. had the best three months in its history. It produced and shipped 249,064 cars and trucks against 167,842 in the first quarter of 1934. Henry Ford, who promised last autumn to turn out 1.000,000 cars this year, had doubled production. His output of V-8 cars and trucks for the quarter jumped to 386,326 against 194,859 in the same period 'last year-an increase of 98%. General Motors turned out 388,716 trucks and cars against 316,604 for the first quarter of 1934. At week's end the Automobile Manufacturers...
United Textile Workers' Vice President Francis J. Gorman had been growling for weeks over the failure of some millowners to live up to the agreements on rehiring strikers and mitigating the "stretch-out" which ended last autumn's textile strike. When NLRB last week authorized certain mills to reduce machine and man hours by 25%, Leader Gorman cried. ''The stage is set for another strike...
Last week Mr. Buchan's choice for the job was a huge success. The Canadian Commons cheered the news with a will. Britain hoped George V would make his man a peer before John Buchan goes to Canada in the early autumn; Canadians fervently prayed he would not. Canadian politicians promptly tried to impress one another with the fact that they had read Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection...
Married. Tom Campbell Black, co-winner of the MacRobertson Trophy, England-to-Australia air race last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29); and Florence Desmond. British actress, mimic ("The Hollywood Party"); in London...