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...With time to prowl around Shanghai's famed new Municipal Centre on which Chinese have spent $8,000,000 (or 20,000,000 Chinese dollars), correspondents last week found the $225,000 Administration Building gutted as a result of 13 shells efficiently hurled through its green and yellow tiled roof by Japanese warships. Mere smoking debris was the Centre's $90,000 museum and burned was the $1,500,000 Jukong Municipal Wharf completed only a few months...
Most intriguing piece of description is Mr. Bridges' chapter on "Midnight in the Zoo." He went out one dark night and found that lions and tigers prowl about, that monkeys snore just like humans, that snakes sleep soundly with their eyes wide open...
...LaFollette Committee's public laundry corporate labor relations are getting the scrubbing of their lives. The sheepishness with which labor spys and executives unfolded their shabby exploits hints that the rule of pry and prowl and deceive will be dropped in the future. General Motors, the target of the current investigation, has oozed unsavory details. Not content with ordinary spying, its men stole union files, deliberately broke the Wisconsin law for registration of detectives, and jammed up union activities. Some of its workers in Lansing read in yesterday's paper that all the officers of their union were detectives...
...almost deserted was the underground Lakeside Exhibition Hall, where visitors were invited to prowl through plaster of Paris mines, gaze at blast furnaces and Bessemer converters, store away such bits of useful knowledge as: "It takes five tons of material to make one ton of steel." Touching off a brighter spark of interest was the Hall of Progress. There, not far from a distiller's display, was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's booth, the Ohio State Chiropractic Society's show, a $275,000 exhibit of the good works of the Federal Government...
...rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting an unnatural movement or some strangled whisper...