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...that Steelman Fairless and Labor-man Murray were about to sit down to bargain. The independents were incredulous. Just before the bargaining began, U. S. Steel's President Irvin called up all the independents in person to break the news officially. In terrific agitation the independents started to criss-cross the country with long-distance calls and within less than two hours after the end of the first bargaining conference no less than five independents, led by Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp., had announced wage raises. But U. S. Steel had beaten them to the draw...
...hasty readers of a popular book, as the Hell-Hole of Creation. Actually the high plateau on which Addis Ababa stands and which comprises about half the Empire is suited in climate to the taste of an ordinary U. S. citizen although the altitude is trying. Rushing rivers criss-cross the plateau with deep gorges. Transportation of fantastic difficulty is enhanced by unimaginable mud in the rainy season, but the obstacles of Nature on the plateau are in every sense susceptible of being overcome...
...side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show to keep the money coming...
...Dickens and a generation after him slept heading toward the north because they thought that they might suffer harm while lying criss-cross to the earth's magnetic field. To insulate themselves from that imagined magnetic effect people stood their beds on glass, "nonconducting" casters...
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of family affection that Catholic Mrs. Morgan was reported to be praying before an improvised altar in her dressing room that her granddaughter might remain with Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney attempted to sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared...