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General Fu Tso-yi, Nationalist commander in the north, shattered the city's traditional calm. For a fortnight he had been pulling his troops back from one outlying position after another. His "North China Corridor" had been chopped up into three closets-Kalgan, Peiping, Tientsin. Everything looked ready for...
A month ago, when Federal Housing Administrator Raymond Foley cracked that "What America needs is a good $6,000 house," the Price brothers sat down to see if it could be done. They substituted an insulated concrete-slab floor for hardwood floors, eliminated the basement in favor of a utility...
Several men said they had not received "fair notice" of their assignment to the barracks. This, they claimed, prevented them from repacking in order to have sufficient clothes and blankets in the closets basketball auditorium.
As Frederick Lewis Allen has proved, the age of only yesterday, and the day before, is already history and ripe for retelling. .There is even gold to be found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives...
Last week the sobersided Department of Commerce explained: "For some time . . . evidence had been accumulating . . . that abnormally large shipments of water closets were moving into export channels." Commerce had discovered that exporters seemed to be shipping more cast-iron water closets (which require no export license) than manufacturers were making...