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...still far from its former glory, but all the habitable houses are full and so are two new tourist courts with a capacity of 200. Many arthritics, unable to find room in Tombstone, motor the 72 miles from Tucson or the 20-odd miles from Bisbee and Benson to take the treatment. The old Crystal Palace Bar is in full swing and sick people wander around visiting the site of the OK Corral and gawking at Million Dollar Stope, a caved-in mine near the middle of town...
Canada's fears of serious labor troubles rose sharply. In Windsor, where a smoldering strike of 10,000 Ford Motor Co. of Canada workers entered its third month, there were signs of flame...
...belief that Young Henry would make the U.A.W. an ample offer. Young Henry wants more than anything else to make Ford first in automobiles. He also has a strong leaning toward his grandfather's tradition of high wages and low prices. If he could beat other motor manufacturers to the draw with a U.A.W. wage settlement, he might well be away out in front in the great race to feed the hungry market for new motorcars...
...them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like the Tuvinian capital, Kizilkhoto (I.e.,"Redtown,v pop. 10,000). The Bolsheviks put even Buddhist monks to work. They also introduced drugstores...
Then, on a soberer note, he sat down and wrote his employes: "Throughout the war, [motor transportation systems] have suffered substantial losses. . . . They have been drowned between millstones, increasing costs of operation . . . because of wages . . . lessened efficiency of labor, increased costs of parts and maintenance . . . inability to obtain new trucks, and the inflexibility of rate structures...