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...Oklahoma, they were directed by the state's labor service from headquarters at Stillwater. The state service sent out mechanized brigades wherever needed, on a few hours' notice. When the cutters, some of whom own up to twelve combines and employ 25 hands, finish in Oklahoma, they will go to work in Kansas, helped by 4,000 combines owned by Oklahoma farmers. By September, they will be sweeping like beneficent locusts across North Dakota into Manitoba...
...costing the Finns some things they value more highly than money. They must house and employ about 450,000 émigrés-more than one-tenth of Finland's population-from the territories the Finns gave up to Russia. How many stayed behind? The highest estimate I got was 40; a leftist told me, "Not even the Communists stayed." So Finland has ruthlessly had to requisition living space. Every person over ten years old is allowed one room (two children under ten count as one adult). Many houses and apartments have three times their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland...
Arthur H. Schmon, 52, mustached president of McCormick's Ontario Paper Co. and head of its timberlands, paper mills and ships, bosses more people (7,850) than the Tribune and Daily News employ together (3,200 apiece). He was the Colonel's World War I adjutant, named a son Robert McCormick Schmon, is probably closest to the boss of all executives (none of them calls him "Mac," and few presume to call him "Bert...
Building Materials. In the rebuilding of their homeland, the returning Yugoslavs have much to contribute. In Canada they have learned new skills. They are taking with them machines to employ these skills, have already subscribed $1,119,000 for equipment. Each permanent emigrant can also take out his personal possessions plus cash up to $25,000. For a year abroad, $4,900 cash is allowed...
...Black & White. Neil finds the answer when, for the first time in his life, he visits the local colored section and finds out that Negroes are human beings. This revelation also gives Author Lewis a wonderful chance to employ his most sneering and dramatic satire-through the simple device of ranging the struggling Negroes of Grand Republic on one side of the stage and the "Babbitts" of the white community on the other. Author Lewis' Negroes are not idealized-in fact some of them are shoddy and worthless characters-but most readers are likely to agree with Neil that...