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Topping Oregon's labor problem is the current slump in the lumber industry. Only strong market is sawdust, used locally as fuel and now skyhigh at $12 a truckload. Another difficulty is the restless defiance which seems to pervade the whole Northwest. When a mob in Baker, Ore. recently ran a Beck organizer out of town with the help of local peace officers, Oregon's Governor Martin expressed public satisfaction. Few weeks ago in a Beck-Bridges dispute over some Seattle warehousemen, "the Tsar of Seattle Labor" threatened to close five warehouses if the Labor Board even held...
...sooner had injured Vittorio returned than Rome picked up its cudgels. Rushing from an interview with II Duce, the editor of ultra-Fascist Il Tevere had his paper on the streets two hours later, condemning Hollywood for threefold intrusion into Italian cinemaffairs: 1) invasion of the market with a product "unsurpassable because of a crushing superiority of means," 2) control of distribution, 3) a threat to enter the theatre field (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's plan for a circuit of its own in Italy). Italy permits Hollywood to take home $1,000,000 profit annually. Since this represents a return...
Athletic Clubs, a General Hospital, several restaurants, a Fire Station, and a public market are some of the subjects for scale models built by students last year...
...Stetson's book does not take account of the recent stockmarket and business slump. He pointed out last week, however, that sunspots diminished after Aug. 1 (two weeks before the market break) and did not resume their upclimb until last fortnight. He expects the current sunspot increase to continue for another year...
Last week, as it is likely to be for some time, major influence upon the New York stock market were the inspirational efforts of Washington. Three weeks ago, when the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements, prices rose in the best weekly rally since the smash started. Then they fell back. By early last week the Dow-Jones industrial averages had set a new low of 123.9. Railroads at 31.7 and utilities at 21.3 were almost at their bottoms...