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Tasteless and odorless carbon monoxide crumples the coal miner, turns his body cherry red. From the exhaust pipe of his automobile comes the same deadly gas to fell the careless motorist who lets his engine run in a tight-shut garage. Housewives leave unlit gas stoves turned on and whole families perish. Unskilled operators give surgical patients too much anesthesia. Faulty furnaces kill college boys in their beds. Newborn babies breathe once or twice, then breathe no more. . . . In these ways and in many another Death by Asphyxia comes some 50,000 times a year...
...first the miners were very hospitable. Family after family invited her to come visit them. She got used to sleeping two and three in a bed, but night alarms made her nerves jumpy. At the Gietradis house, where the whole family slept in one room, she was warned to look out for the old man, but what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle...
Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...
...boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...
...trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal. The Los Angeles La Opinion painted shorts on Holmes, lengthened Thurmond's shirt...