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...done a better job than anyone had a right to expect. His 43 price ceilings have frequently been riddled by bootlegging, black boursing, coony little tricks such as charging "extras" for make-believe services. But by pleading, bellowing and sometimes bulldozing, he has persuaded or forced at least partial compliance. He has also worked out many a voluntary industry agreement on prices...
...seventh days came the first bad news. The main tank battle between Sâlum and Tobruk was gradually moving west. Evidently the Germans were making a supreme effort to break out toward Bengasi through a narrow bottleneck south of Tobruk-and evidently they were having at least partial success. If they escaped, the hardest British task would still be ahead. British losses were mounting hourly; the Germans claimed a ridiculously specific 662 British tanks. The Luftwaffe was appearing in greater strength. Things were getting tough. London spokesmen began to say ominously and vaguely that the fighting was "very hard...
...Chinook running this year were fingerlings in 1937. At that time Bonneville was already a partial barrier. This fall these fingerlings, now grown to huge Chinook salmon, were moving upstream in numbers that set a modern record. Last week the Oregon State Fish Commission released its figures on September deliveries of Chinook to Oregon salmon canneries. The average September catch has been 2,000,000 lb. Last month's was 9,600,000 lb. Through the first 20 days of September Government fish counters at Bonne ville counted fish using the ladders at the rate of more than...
This is not the first time that silk has seriously troubled Japan. Between 1930 and 1934 U.S. depression and the world onset of rayon (which had most of silk's qualities except elasticity) forced raw-silk prices down from $7 to $1.30 a pound. Japan found partial solutions to the problem. She went off gold, restricted silk production and greatly increased her small domestic silk consumption. She built up her own rayon industry until it approached her silk business, became the world's No. 1 rayon producer...
...that the music season is under way, a batch of interesting concerts have cropped up around town, and this column intends to be no more than a partial catalogue of some of them...