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...Fortnight ago, the Soviet government sent a formal protest to Washington. U.S. flyers, said the note, were dropping Colorado beetles on East German potato fields. The Estonian republic set up a people's democratic bug watch to crush the six-legged tools of Wall Street. Czechoslovakia's Red regime piped up, six days later, and said that someone had been sprinkling potato bugs on Czech fields...
...Last fortnight Selby went down to the Delaware River Bridge, where unlicensed labor contractors were hiring laborers for New Jersey truck farms. Selby found one old man who had been paid 65? for eight hours' work, another who had been intimidated when he protested at being cheated. By last week, Pennsylvania state troopers had stopped the illegal practices...
...years an unvarying stream of 3,000,000 people passed annually by his cage. He was seldom sick, almost never troublesome. But early this month Keeper Robinson noted that Bushman seemed listless. One day, a fortnight ago, the big gorilla toppled over and lay sprawled and inert on the floor...
...bull market got its hardest jolt in five months. In three days last week the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped from its so-year peak of 228.38 to 222.44, just about where it was before the fast climb a fortnight ago. Most traders thought the slump a healthy sign, since it failed to produce any heavy selling. In fact, the volume of trading dropped off each day the market fell. Since the rest of the economy was still running at high speed, the bulls were still unworried...
...fortnight ago, the cotton pit in the antiquated bourse on Alexandria's Mohammed Aly Square exploded with the news that the two pashas owned or controlled every bale of Ashmouni cotton in Egypt. Ashmouni rocketed to $80.36 a hundredweight, nearly double its price five months ago. When frantic speculators who had sold Ashmouni short tried to make delivery with other grades of cotton, the pashas appealed to the Egyptian cabinet. On their plea that "foreigners" were trying to cheat them, the cabinet passed a retroactive law banning delivery of substitute grades...