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...Japanese complained in Shanghai last week that U. S. and British firms, such as insurance companies, are making a "racket" out of mortgaging Chinese plants and properties so that these can hoist the Stars & Stripes or the Union Jack. Such flags, at latest reports, seemed to have saved considerable Chinese property from Japanese bombs, but tempers were fraying. Meanwhile U. S. Marines joined forces with British police and soldiers to break up a riot by 1,000 native workers striking in the International Settlement at the Chinese Fou Foong Flour Mill. Since it is within 20 yards of the Sino...
...last week two unidentified submarines, presumably Rightist Spanish, German or Italian, opened fire on the Leftist freighter Andutz-Mendi, set it ablaze. Up the mast scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with...
...elevator engineering is based on the simple hoist. Suspended by cables (still "ropes" to elevator men) and balanced by a counterweight, the car is drawn upward on its rails by a motor-driven drum ("sheave") at the top of the shaft. The development of this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator...
...neutral cordon has jurisdiction only over "non-Spanish ships" and in practice a Spanish ship has been anything flying either a Leftist or a Rightist flag. Chronic last week were such cases as the troopships which arrive from Italy flying the Italian flag and escorted by Italian destroyers. hoist the Spanish flag as they enter Spanish waters, then on leaving hoist the Italian flag again and steam back to Italy escorted by II Duce's war dogs. Leftist ships, although they lack destroyer escorts, hoist the British or French flag when that seems a good idea, and from...
...Washington stormed white-thatched James A. Emery, general counselor for the National Association of Manufacturers. Fist clenched, he damned the bill as unconstitutional, cumbersome and certain to hoist consumer prices. "The vast and ambiguous . . . ocean of authority . . . granted to a board of five . . . will obliterate the last vestige of local self-government." What the country really needed from Congress, he said, was legislation to fasten some responsibility upon labor unions...