Word: closings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With cheap electric power here in this state and with the raw materials so close at hand, would our Eastern steel friends say that plants should be built in the East to supply the million or more tons of iron requirements on this Coast...
...workers, Tsar Bioff had ordered the companies to up wages 10% ($360,000 a year). Likely to be demanded later if he got this much were more raises for many more workers. If the cinemoguls refused, said Willie Bioff, he would not only strike Hollywood studios but through his close connections with unionized projectionists would close 15,000 movie houses throughout the U. S. Although War II had cut off $44,000,000 of annual revenues from foreign film sales and economy was in order, the producers capitulated to this threat, and Willie Bioff announced a victory. In fact, however...
Although situated far away in Northwest Europe, Finland has long been considered a close friend by Americans. It is a strong, clean, upstanding nation; its government is democratic, it has always minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they...
Leontief pointed out the close resemblance between Stalin's method in gaining Finland and Hitler's in seizing Czechoslovakia. In both cases there was a strong campaign against the smaller state, culminating in an ultimatum and finally invasion. Since the Finnish cabinet resigned yesterday, Russia will probably see to it that the next one is composed of pro-Russians, as Germany set up Hacha and his aides in Czechoslovakia...
Browder and the Dies Committee will be under the close scrutiny of the recently formed Civil Liberties Committee of the Student Union, according to David Fleishman '41, chairman of the group...