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...such budgetary juggling. For it cost $64,600,000, of which an estimated $49,000,000 came as a direct Government subsidy. By last week 33,724,295 patrons had paid some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong opposition to the idea from outlying provinces which dislike the thought of their trade suffering while Paris gains...
...shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...where a Ford assembly plant was tied up so tight by striking United Automobile Workers that officials were unable to enter their own offices. Last week, tacitly admitting that he had merely tried to scare the city's authorities, Mr. Ford let it be known that he would reopen in Kansas City as soon as adequate police protection was guaranteed. In Detroit, Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, announced: "We did not close the plant. It was done by the people of Kansas City. They are the only persons who can bring about the reopening...
...kosher beef, which must be butchered sacrificially, handled ceremoniously. Last fortnight 5,000 New York City kosher butchers-who for months have had the unpleasant job of asking Jewish housewives to pay $1.35 for cuts which last year cost $1 - shut up shop, noisily announced they would not reopen until meat prices were down...
Picket lines of portly butchers were promptly swung around kosher shops which refused to close, bringing on as lusty a brawling as in any A. F. of L.C. I. O. fracas. A plea to reopen from their president and from now on the Commissioner of Markets was met in open mass meetings with a loud Yiddish NO! Ignoring the law of supply & demand, which was working with textbook simplicity as a result of Drought and Government curtailment, the butchers howled that they were the victims of a packers' monopoly...