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...never-never world of the funnies, this was the news of the year-comparable to Henry Ford quitting his motor company and setting up shop in competition across the street. It was a move involving three of the biggest U.S. press lords: the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick (who lost Caniff), and Marshall Field and William Randolph Hearst, who gained him. For Caniff himself, it meant a guarantee of $520,000 for his next five years' work, and a stiff challenge-to outdo the best of his past...
...came so fast that newspapers ran lists of companies sued in long columns, like disaster victims-which they well might be. The unions sued Bethlehem Steel for $200,000,000, Curtis-Wright for $29,000,000, National Biscuit Co. for $50,000,000, and prepared to sue the Ford Motor Co. for $300,000,000. In all, the total of suits might reach a stratospheric $6 billion...
...taken the edge off pneumonia. Tuberculosis has yielded somewhat to better treatment and early X-ray diagnosis. To take their places, non-germ diseases have moved up. Last year's list: 1) heart disease; 2) cancer; 3) cerebral hemorrhage; 4) nephritis; 5) pneumonia and influenza; 6) accidents (except motor vehicle); 7) tuberculosis; 8) diabetes; 9) premature birth; 10) motor vehicle accidents...
...lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled badly. So did the Golden. Scoronine led the field until the last day, then refused to plunge into the 45° water. (Shed had won his first U.S. championship on a day that...
...time it takes to flick a switch. Railroads recalled most of some 25,000 furloughed workers, restored curtailed schedules, were back to nearly normal in two days. Across the U.S., in the nick of time, manufacturers canceled orders for mass layoffs of more than 750,000. The Ford Motor Co., which had laid off 20,000, promptly called them back. The other auto companies, turning out cars at a postwar peak of 96,519 cars a week, canceled their shutdown orders, kept producing almost without interruption. But the strike may well cause a break in the all-important flow...