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Thus last week PRC perhaps moved a step nearer prosperity. And Drexel-Partner Newhall had new things to tell about PRC. But the anthracite road has become rough. Although most of the consumption is by domestic users (80%), therefore relatively steady, these users have been hard to hold. One reason is that the coal companies have had difficulty in making regular deliveries. This has made the consumers ready to accept such substitutes as gas, oil. Then too, imported coal has been mounting. The U. S. S. R. and Wales have been leading foreign sellers of coal...
...tons, to steam to the U. S. Naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. "Guantanamo," announced the State Department, "is three days less steaming distance to Brazil than Hampton Roads. . . . In view of the uncertainty as to the future situation in Brazil it has been felt prudent to have a ship nearer the zone of disturbance to take off American refugees should such action be necessary for the protection of their lives...
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...
Thus violent already, the electioneering campaigns are expected to be increasingly vigorous as general election day (Sept. 14) draws nearer. Divided against themselves, German votes are now being sought by seven major parties, none of which can hope for a landslide in its direction. The parties: Social Democrats, Nationalists, Catholic Centrists, Communists, German People's Party, the new Staatspartei, and the up-and-coming National Socialist Workers party. Seeking the element which precipitated last week's turbulence, observers unanimously pointed to the Fascists and their demagog-oratorical, Jew-baiting, terrorist Adolf Hitler...
...have never been able to agree on the means. Never has there been the necessary government support for the movement until the new, higher U. S. Tariff evoked talk of reprisals throughout Europe, direct reprisals in Italy and France. Last week's meeting found the European motor men nearer agreed, prepared to ride together on a favorable tide of public sentiment...