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Utilities have held undisputed claim to the title of No. 1 New Deal whipping boy ever since the President tired of lambasting the bankers. Not only did the New Deal create the toothy Public Utility Act of 1935 with its famed "death sentence" for holding companies, but it has gone in for direct and indirect competition on a vast and widening scale. Government money built TVA and Bonneville. Government money has been pressed upon municipalities to buy or build their own local power systems. Government money has subsidized rural electrification. Meantime, in the past seven years, the value...
...Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair had H. G. Wells as lead-off man, with Robert Frost...
Prior to yesterday's negotiations the unionizing drive had proceeded for several weeks. Organizers claim that almost the entire kitchen force is organized with Local 186 of the "Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association," and that approximately 75 percent of the waitresses and 100 percent of the bus boys have been incorporated into this union as an auxiliary...
...excellent chance to become Ohio's first female victim of the electric chair was by no means Mrs. Hahn's only claim to distinction last week. By the time her trial ended, she had established herself to the jury's satisfaction as one of the most amazingly assiduous heroines in the history of U. S. crime...
Countries that have developed cargo carrying by air from a stunt into an industry generally have two things in common: rich inaccessible regions and inadequate systems of highways and railroads. All records for airplane freight are held by the U. S. S. R. who claim a movement of 66,000,000 Ibs. last year and who recently flew 10,000 sheep to collective farms over 342 miles of the Turkmen Republic's desert. Canada, serving millions of square miles of lake-dotted, forested terrain above the "civilization line," annually handles 25,000,000 Ib. After the U. S., South...