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...trucks, interstate commerce, which the Constitution guarantees shall be unobstructed, is about as free as a traffic jam. State regulations (chiefly on vehicle weight and length) stop them in every direction. Pennsylvania, sprawled athwart main east-west as well as north-south routes, limits vehicles' weights to 19½ tons (way under that of bordering States). Kentucky, like a feudal baron astride the routes from the Midwest to the South, limits weights to 14 tons (liberalized last year from 9 tons), and exacts toll from highway commerce. Other blockades: Kansas (where trucks have to line up for hours...
Another promising development came among the Princes who rule India's 562 big & small semiautonomous States. Often they have been accused of encouraging British rule as a means of guaranteeing their own powers. But last week, after a meeting of the Chamber of Princes, Chancellor Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanager declared that the Princes would support Dominion status under a constitution framed by India's "main elements...
...yanked out of bed by police, and hauled off to jail for failing to black-out her house. She sobbed: "One of the officers slapped my face. I'm going to tell that to the judge." Stalled for almost five hours, traffic choked the streets, caused the worst jam in the city's history...
Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
...next seven and a half days were packed with equally nervous moments. His ship, last to leave Singapore harbor, was bombed with deadly efficiency by the Jap, was soon in flames. Yates McDaniel, propped against a coil of rope, took notes, stopping only to help fight the fires. A jam-packed lifeboat finally carried the oar-weary, bailing survivors to Bangka Island, five miles away. At dark, the tide so low that lifeboats could not float within a half-mile of the beach, the weary party began wading to deep water and rescuing launches from a nearby rubber plantation. Said...