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...midnight last week in Detroit, in a little room of Chrysler's Institute of Engineering, Messrs. Keller, Murray and U. S. Conciliator Jim Dewey had a final private chat. Outside were the union's President Roland Jay Thomas and Richard Frankensteen (whose tactless tactics helped prolong the strife). Jim Dewey excitedly emerged, announced: "I am happy to announce an agreement...
Mayor LaGuardia, not an easily dismayed man, backed him up, rapped leaders who prolong strikes, declared that "the longer the division continues, the more irritation and wounds will be inflicted, and the scars will become permanent...
...with reserve: "Unless there is considerable increase in the absorption of goods, the accumulation of inventories now under way might reach significant proportions." The significance of "significant" was left to businessmen's imagination. Said the National City Bank: "Continued building up of inventories, through further forward buying, would prolong the boom but only defer the reckoning...
...between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free of pain, he can still take proper precautions to prolong his life...
...Information announced: "The German wireless has distorted the purpose of the British contraband policy as setting out to strangle neutral trade and bringing starvation and death to old people, women and children. . . . What Britain is endeavoring to do is to prevent the German Government from importing goods ... to prolong...