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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time the reason for Soviet persistence became known. Russia is clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
Such was the cataclysmic picture painted last week in Manhattan by Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg, a Swedish-born mining engineer and geologist of Toronto. At a meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mr. Lundberg described the latest efforts to find, by newfangled electrical and magnetic prospecting, the remains of Arizona's great meteorite...
...telephone. The National Affairs editor, the head of the correspondents, the picture editor are each notified. In ten minutes a telegram is on its way to Casper Zinkowitz' hometown, the picture editor is giving instructions to a photographer by long distance. Next morning the National Affairs editor will find on his desk a report of interviews with Zinkowitz' former law partner and boyhood friends. Meanwhile duplicate photographs of the justice-to-be are flying air mail to the printers in Chicago and editor in Manhattan...
Chief trouble is getting a job. Each year U. S. schools send forth over 2,000,000 youngsters to go to work. Less than half of them find it. Moreover, some three-quarters of them are not trained for anything better than unskilled labor...
...wonder if it were quite so clear an example of frustration as the newspapers thought. Interstate Hosiery stock had gone up from $7 to $42.50 a share while Mr. Marien was doing its accounting. That fact was noted with interest by SEC. But before Mr. McCall and SEC can find out anything very definite they will have to wait while a new firm of accountants tries heroically to untangle Mr. Marien's cat's cradle...