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...sixth race in two days, the low hurdles finals, he and Cornell's Bo Roberson ran nip and tuck for the first six hurdles as both pulled away from the rest of the field. Again Landau's conditioning proved the big margin as he pulled away and finished the race all by himself. His winning time of 22.9 seconds broke his day-old record, but was disallowed because of a trailing wind of five and one-half miles, one-half mile too much for an official record...
...day-old strike of construction laborers in the Boston area was settled yesterday, enabling contractors to begin pouring the foundation for Quincy House tomorrow, and to resume work on three other large construction projects in the University...
Signs of the hard times are inescapable. A movie house proclaims cheaper admissions for holders of unemployment-compensation cards. Another recently started staying open all night, reviving the Depression custom of letting movie houses serve as places for shelter and a nap. Groceries advertise another depression standby: day-old bread. Restaurant men who used to have trouble finding enough dishwashers and porters now turn away lines of eager applicants. The police report a sharp upsurge in burglaries, thefts, armed robberies. On the other side of the law, a lot more young Detroiters are eager to wear a police uniform...
...since the Depression days of the 1930s formed today at City Hall in this recession-hit steel town where one of every nine residents is receiving unemployment checks." The "news" sped across the U.S. Cried the Lorain evening Journal (circ. 26,517): "A vicious false report ... a case study in mass hysteria." Rewriting the U.P. rewriteman, a Journal editorial pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only 175 relief cases v. no at the same time last year. When three bakeries gave the city welfare department "a small assortment" of day-old bread and cakes...
...proved premature. Next day Attorney Bottomly, 34-year-old principal in a group of "public-spirited" buyers, met again with Fox and got a 24-day option to buy the Post (for a reported $1,500,000). Bottomly put up $100,000 for his option, agreed to settle the Post's $44,000 back income-tax bill; Fox promised employees some $35,000 in back pay. With its Sunday edition, the day-old corpse resumed publishing...