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Cheer. Meantime U. S. business has peppered the Press with items of good cheer. Cleveland machinery makers are three months behind on their orders. February burlap consumption rose 1,000,000 yd. to 61,000,000. Manhattan hotel rentals increased 11% over a year ago. Michigan and Wisconsin iron mines returned to five-day weeks in anticipation of the most active year since 1930. Mergers, deals and expansion plans have again become regular news (see p. 80). J. P. Morgan & Co. restored all Depression salary cuts...
...lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music begins to play. Two corporals press the shoulders of the victim and two the thighs...
...about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened to "Legs" Carella, whose body was found wrapped up in burlap with feet hacked off, gold tooth knocked out, scars sliced away. Most hopeful were they of pinning on the Rettich gang the great $428,000 armored truck robbery in Brooklyn last summer (TIME, Sept. 3), Day by day grew the list of crimes of which the gang was suspected...
After two weeks of training, the jack rabbits at Abilene last week knew that their only chance for life was to beat the greyhounds to the burlap at the far end of the field. Each rump-bobbing rabbit raced 150 yd. over the greensward before a brace of dogs leaped in pursuit. One dog wore a red knit collar, the other a white. From a tower the judge watched sharply to see which dog took the lead at the start, which turned the rabbit at a right angle, which made the kill. He raised a red or white flag...
...Hide Exchanges. All four had been sponsored by the same group of commodity traders? Francis Robinson Henderson, who made and lost fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange, was a failure. One year ago the Commodity Exchange moved to its present quarters in the International Telephone & Telegraph Building, a few doors west of Hanover Square. On its first anniversary, the Exchange had handled almost a billion and a quarter dollars worth of sales.* Seats originally valued...