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...shipping jam quickly developed. Manhattan banks bought foreign gold so furiously that they found difficulty in getting it to the U. S. The U. S. Government had already engaged most of the available cargo space for gold it had secretly bought through the RFC. Lazard Frères prepared to ship $5,750,000, National City Bank booked $3,500,000 on the Berengaria, Bank of the Manhattan Co., $8,400,000 on the Bremen and the Manhattan, etc. etc. Every fast ship sailing from northern Europe in the next two weeks was reported booked up full. The limit...
Goodyear President Paul W. Litchfield was the least excited of all the tire executives who jam-packed the Domestic Relations Court in Akron last week. He has consistently maintained that the making of special brand merchandise is a common practice in U. S. manufacturing and wholly legitimate. Goodyear's concessions for the 1931 contract, he said, were simply a means of getting business when business was scarce...
...straight up to the embroidered oak leaves on his cap. To Captain Macnamara, who had gone punting many a time as a boy, mud was no stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with...
When the doors of Grand Central Palace swung wide to a crowd that jam-packed the sidewalks for a block in either direction, 27 different breeds of cars in 250 different models were lined up smartly for judgment. They were, as they always are, the best automobiles the prima donna of U. S. industries had ever turned out. To help the crowd make up their minds, excited demonstrators, attendants, executives, engineers and mannikins swarmed over & under, in & out of each & every exhibit. Studebaker had golden girls and a golden queen who chanted: "Take a magic key and win a Studebaker...
...system used by Washington's "Brain Trust" to obtain from Congress powers for President Roosevelt so sweeping that they have been called dictatorial. Labor, according to Sir Stafford as early as last January, must use any victory which the Party may win in a general election to jam through the House of Commons a sweeping "Emergency Powers Bill." If, as he expects, the House of Lords should balk at this, his Majesty must then be "ad- vised" (i. e. compelled) to create enough new peers to pass the bill and give Labor's premier Rooseveltian powers. Knowing Britain...