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...State Guide Books. Ex-Director Alsberg is credited with the plan whereby established publishing houses bring them out. Viking Press has published nine. Oxford University Press and Hastings House are each publishers of seven. Houghton Mifflin published the six New England Guides, soured a little when Massachusettsians raised hob about the amount of space given to Sacco and Vanzetti. Publishers have not made much money out of the Guide Books, but report a steady sale...
Last month Banker Giannini called off the sale. Events in Europe had played hob with securities sales, only 50.460 shares ($2,523,200 worth) had been subscribed. Last week frustrated A. P. announced that Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America's biggest stockholder) had bought the unsubscribed stock - but not with its own money. Angel of the deal was RFC, rebuffed but ever-ready. It advanced Transamerica $27,533,800 at 3½ % for ten years...
Because unions are combinations in potential restraint of trade, indiscriminate application of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to them would raise hob with U. S. Labor. In particular, unions would lose their most potent weapon: the strike...
...besieging Trondheim from the south. Another contingent hurried southeast to brace the retreating Norse at Lillehammer (famed resort, home of Novelist Sigrid Undset) who faced the main German Army. In the Dovre Mountains around Dombås. German bombing planes, unopposed by Allied fighters or antiaircraft, again raised hob. They furiously strafed transports and harbor facilities at Molde and Andalsnes, blasted stations and rolling stock along the railroad, rendered precarious the communications and supply between both Allied advance parties and their slower-moving main force. When Allied airmen improvised a landing field on a frozen road southwest of Andalsnes...
Died. Abraham Solomon Shafer, 47, building contractor, who raised hob at President Roosevelt's Little Businessmen's conference in 1938 (got himself ejected); by his own hand (hanging); in Philadelphia...