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Speed-Up. Despite Citizen Washburn's opinion, Congress had its busiest week to date. The House passed Harold Knutson's tax reduction bill, thus immeasurably speeding up a final determination of the tax question. It also shouted through a cut-rate Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, over attempts to scuttle the U.S. Conciliation Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NLRB. The House joined the Senate in extending a modified Second War Powers Act until June 30, ending Selective Service, and appropriating $9,000,000 to help Mexico fight its foot-&-mouth disease epidemic...
...Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over the place, and hulking Sub-Menace Lon Chaney Jr. takes a simple, boobish pleasure in cracking walnuts with his biceps...
...busiest night to date was December 17, when he popped in 11 field goals and two fouls against Tufts. Against Indiana Central at Indianapolis he paced the Crimson with 23 points, and in victories over Brown and B.U., he collected 20 and 21 points respectively...
...prototype of the 202 was already test-flying. If it turned out well, then Martin had plenty to do. His orders totaled $201 million. Martin was also planning to open a new $3,500,000 plastics plant soon. Said Martin happily: "1947 will be the busiest peacetime year in our history...
...Bridges had sent his organizers from San Francisco to Hawaii to sweep in recruits for his maritime union. It was virgin territory. Bridges' men also took in pineapple-plantation workers and a smattering of railroad workers, cannery workers, truck drivers. But their busiest field was the sugar plantations. They signed up plantation hands by the thousands in a heterogeneous organization that soon began to look like John L. Lewis' District...