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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Carl Edgar Mapes, 64, able, hardworking, non-orating, longtime Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. His last words: "I wish I were home [Grand Rapids, Mich...
...mine shaft almost as often as they do. Once there, he sits cramped in a lantern-lighted hole full of the din of drilling, sketches everything he sees. Mining engineers admire his sombre, accurate pictures, in 1936 invited him to join the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Last week laymen too had their chance to admire, for Artist Hoffman's first show since 1935 opened in Manhattan at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. One admirer: Mining Engineer Herbert Hoover...
Married. Joseph George Strecker, 51, born in Galicia, Hot Springs, Ark. lunchroom proprietor and onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien...
...cost of freight and insurance) to about 48? per Ib. As the world's biggest user of tin, the U. S. is much interested in its price. When the official pound was dropped to $4.02-$4.06, ?230 per ton became equivalent to only 40? per Ib. So last week Britain killed her wartime rule, which since September had forbidden the sale of tin on the London Metal Exchange at more than ?230 per ton. She also upped world production quotas (British-controlled through the International Tin Committee) to 120% of standard. Britain doesn't mean to have...
...date the U. S. public has seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut) 478 Studebaker trucks on a Staten Island dock in New York Harbor readied for shipment to the Allied Armies, provided the first good view of nonplane war orders in the flesh...