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Quick Action. In little more than a year he had closed plants in four New England towns, sold their machinery, abolished the jobs of 5,000 workers. Last week Roy Little announced that he would also close his sheet and blanket factory in Nashua, N.H., and open up six new plants in Puerto Rico. In Nashua 3,500 more workers were out of jobs...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
Dyak sophistication, however, is making progress along other lines. Malayan authorities were told that the only extra equipment required would be a shirt apiece. The Dyaks had other ideas. Jabu informed the camp commandant that each Dyak would need a messkit and cup, a groundsheet, a blanket and a mosquito...
Discus in the Rain. The second day dawned cold and rainy. Mathias won his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...
Three giant Sunday supplements blanket U.S. newsstands and front porches every week. But the blanket is full of holes; for small dailies and weeklies there is no mass-produced American Weekly, This Week or Parade. Last week a new supplement got ready to cover these journalistic bare spots. Nowadays, which will start in the fall, has already signed up 305 Midwest papers with a total circulation...