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...Watch Hill, Westerly and Charlestown, R. I. loss of life was heavy. Scores of people who took refuge in the highest dunes were swept away by mountainous seas which carved a new coastline. Well Rock lighthouse at Point Judith was hammered down. So was Prudence Island lighthouse, killing the tender's wife and son. Charlestown was wiped out. Seven school children were drowned in a bus on Jamestown Island...
When the steel industry announced 5~7% price cuts on most of its important products last June, ingot production stood at 28% of capacity. Since then it has increased steadily, reached 47.3%, highest it has been since last October. Whereas the industry could formerly break even at 45% with the old prices, it must now, however, produce at about 55 or 60% to stay out of the red. In an attempt to reach the break-even mark. U. S. Steel Corp. last week suddenly slashed steel rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into...
...Sudetens were fleeing to Germany, scrambling over the frontier at isolated points, and that at Eger, Führer Konrad Henlein had issued a proclamation before entering Germany as Czechoslovak Fugitive No. 1: "The use of machine guns, armored cars and tanks against defenseless* Sudeten Germans has reached the highest point of Czech oppression! ... It is definitely impossible for the Sudeten Germans and Czechs to live in the same state. . . . We want to return to our home† in the Reich! . . . God bless us in our just fight...
...proxy fathers in Washington. Blonds, brunets, redheads, Jews, Catholics and Protestants will be on the list, he said, and a prospective mother can have her child influenced in every physical respect except sex. Heredity and background of all candidates are thoroughly investigated. Since the human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman's present list of 15 is drawn mostly from medical students and interns who are glad to get the $25 fee per insemination. Operation of the bureau will be very simple. Dr. Pelzman will merely collect to order tubes of fresh, fertile spermatozoa...
Lord Wright is now a member of the House of Lords, the highest legal tribunal of England. He was formerly Master of the Rolls and before becoming a Law Lord was a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. He has been chairman of the Committee on Law Revision and has been the author of numerous articles on current English law. The English peer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds honorary LL.D.'s from the Universities of Birmingham and London...