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...Former projects have suffered through inability to obtain a balanced market for these byproducts. Prestcoke's prospects are brightest west of the Alleghenies, where freight charges handicap anthracite fatally. Even there it will meet bitter competition from fast-burning coke, gas, oil, and the new automatic stokers, which employ small sizes of bituminous coal with promising results...
...jubilee pageant of progress'' (2,000 participants). Quite visible were delegates in Chicago, yet not one of the important white Chicago daily papers reported their activities last week. Negroes attributed that silence to a definite cause: Chicago Negroes are effectively boycotting local business houses which refuse to employ Negro help...
While many peasants thus employ their own pigs for the digging, others subscribe to the new commercialism and turn the work over to owners of herds of digging pigs. Last week these herdowners began their annual tour of Perigord, Carcassone, Florae, great truffle centres all, to make bookings for their pigs for the five-month period beginning in November...
...outstanding shorthand systems are the Gregg and the Pitman (originated in 1837) and its adaptations. The Pitman has more symbols-an alphabet of 42 figures, numerous word signs-but fewer stenographers use it than the Gregg. Fundamentally all shorthand systems employ the use of phonetic spelling and abbreviation. But the Pitman method requires the use of lined stationery (identical symbols above and below a line have different connotations and characters of different shading (identical symbols written darker or lighter have different connotations...
...first U. S. policewoman. Mrs. Alice S. Wells of Los Angeles, first (1915) president of the International Association of Policewomen, thinks she was the first. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle of Washington, president since 1919, ignores the kudos of such priority. Last week she insisted that more communities employ women to deal with arrested women and children below eleven. She would have policewomen take over the work and duties of the Traveler's Aid Society...