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Sure enough, one evening after the New York Stockmarket's closing gong the I. C. C. announced a favorable decision. Remarking that "net earnings of the railroads are now inconsistent, in general, not only with constitutional standards as to the rights of private owners, but also with the conditions necessary for the proper conduct of the public service of railroad transportation by private enterprise," the I. C. C. authorized rate increases expected to yield some $47,500,000 more revenue per year...
...Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence Rice) and the latter's gentlemanly fiance Waldo (John Beal...
...this Farr's face was badly marked. In the seventh round Louis landed a halt-dozen punishing blows in as many seconds, but the flurry passed. In the 15th and last round, Louis, having tried everything else, tried a right uppercut to the body. It missed. The final gong rang...
Strictly anti-militaristic, the 75 U. S. Girl Scouts and 26 foreign young ladies pitched their tents helter-skelter-not in precise rows. No martial bugle but a huge iron dinner gong called young "Sylvias" to their meals.* Although their countrymen are at each other's throats, Ruth Sumi Sakurai of Tokyo and Hsueh Min Chang of Peiping came over on the same boat...
...come awake and thoroughly comprehends the position of athletics in the life of the average undergraduate. The report although brief and factual to a degree which prevents the casual reader from readily understanding the heavy work and the slowly-maturing sports philosophy which lies behind it rings the gong. It shows the best line of attack on the old problem of mens sana in corpore sano--still a very real one for all the bilge that has been said and written about...