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Thus, in one mighty breath, does Jack Barrowcliffe nightly dispatch from Chicago's La Salle Street Station the Golden State Limited, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific's crack express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more...
...munitions firms, claims that less than 1% of its profits are from munitions. Venerable Chairman Sir John began to frown when Communist Pollitt reeled off the names of holders of I. C. I. stock as "an indictment of the Capitalist class as a whole." Outstanding names: Quaker Cocoamaker Barrow Cadbury (30,875), Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (833 preference, 5,414 ordinary) and the Right Rev. Edward Thomas Scott Reid, Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (?2,100 in ordinary and preference shares). Sir John knew what was coming and finally it came, that Sir John himself owns...
Measles, to Eskimos a strange and fatal disease, killed 50% of the natives at Point Barrow, on Alaska's Arctic Ocean edge 30 years ago. Last week influenza demonstrated that the years of white men's invasion have not inured Eskimos to white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry...
...However, Eskimos piled whale and walrus blubber at the back door in case blubber was needed for fuel.* Airplanes brought Dr. Greist canned milk for his patients and some serums. By wireless he informed the interested world that the three other white men and two trained nurses at Point Barrow were helping bring the epidemic under control...
...loved him," pleaded Mother Cumie Barrow...