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...manufacturers promised to keep their prices on quality lines stable, if the retailers would do the same. They even designated how much profit the retailer should make-sometimes as high as 50%. Result was that, while other members of the clothing industry were foundering 1 the red-ink bog, the corset and brassiere makers marched quietly along at an amazingly stable pace...
...Mexico, from Illinois to Montana. Up soared thermometers in Bartlesville, Okla. (101°), Bismarck. N. Dak. (102°), Manhattan, Kans. (103°), St. Joseph, Mo. (104º St. Paul, Minn. (105°), Huron, S. Dak. (106°), Morris, Ill. (107°), Sac City, Ia. (108°). Peat bog fires ate their way into the city limits of Milwaukee, while townsfolk panted in an all-time high temperature of 103°. At 102°, Chicago missed by less than a degree its all-time top torridity. Flushed and groggy, schoolchildren were sent home in Des Moines and Minneapolis...
...thoughts could drift back to a December day in Philadelphia, when the Federal Council was in the throes of organizing. It was no easy matter to thread the creeds and dogmas of dozens of sects and bring them together in a common Christian purpose. Out of a bog of conflicting theological ideas Dr. North led his confrères to high and solid ground-social service. An active minister and city missions worker, he believed that "when the standards of the Gospel shall have become the rule of Society, His Kingdom will be here." He wrote the first social creed...
Sirs: TIME'S notice, Bog War (April 3) gives an erroneous idea of the struggle in question. Paraguay has administered Chaco Boreal since Colonial days in her own right. Bolivia was only able to construct chain of small forts owing to domestic troubles in Paraguay during last 30 years, penetrating slowly into undisputed Paraguayan Zone recognized as such by treaties signed by themselves, by U. S. and by the Argentine Republic. Bolivia has never cultivated or owned an inch of ground in that region. Bolivian authorities' object in claiming Chaco is only apparently obtention of outlet on river...
...done that once before, and neatly, with the same engine and parts of the same Lockheed plane. That was last year when he and Bennett Griffin first tried to beat the Post-Gatty record. They cracked up in landing when a Russian field turned out to be a bog; but first they had made a superb jump from Newfoundland to Berlin, whence they took off nearly 11 hr. ahead of Post & Gatty's schedule...