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NINE - AND DEATH MAKES TEN -Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). Thuggee on the blacked-out Edwardic, Britain-bound with munitions and nine passengers. Lying doggo in a remote cabin, Sir Henry Merrivale, of Intelligence, hears of it by accident, snorts his way below to ponder a lady's corpse, a vanished Frenchman and duplicate thumbprints. First-rate puzzler...
...gloom over Tremont Street these days might be issuing from the Shubert or Plymouth theatres, or then again, it might just be smoke from the cigars of the two Messrs. Shuberts and Mr. Abbott as they ponder the cruel world and what it has done to their new openings...
...scrap moved out of the U. S.-Asiatic limelight, many a more innocent-looking export and import commodity moved into it more & more: cotton, textiles, rubber, tin, lumber and pulp, drugs, toys, machinery, pepper, hides, wool, silk. Businessmen in these lines had reason to ponder the course of Washington-Tokyo diplomacy. For if the U. S. went to war with Japan, an enormous two-way trade across the Pacific would...
...Census Bureau put New York City vacancies at 7.6% of all apartments (normal: 5%). Thoroughly alarmed at what Manhattan Realtor Robert H. Armstrong figures is a "25% increase in six years in available accommodations for tenants who can afford more than $50 per month," landlords and agents met to ponder methods of controlling speculative apartment builders...
...Conscription of all wealth that is needed for national defense is a duty that no nation can neglect if it is to survive. But let Reader Dean ponder two facts: i) The Government cannot conscript unbuilt factories. Just now, it is trying to get volunteers to build them, hence some difficulties. 2) Con scripting wealth is a long-established principle of government. Its common name is taxation. One rearmament tax bill has been passed and another is pending...