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Last week not a small dealer but Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., one of the ''Big Four," slashed list prices 5% to 10%. It was the opening salvo of another major price war for the already war-ravished tire industry. The reason given was, as usual, the fact that the mail order houses had cut first in their spring & summer catalogs, out last month. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber and smaller Seiberling met the cut but only after cursing Firestone for upsetting the applecart once again...
...harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were heard 120 mi. away in London...
...Accurate Information." Two days later "Admiral" Gardiner fired his salvo, a 14-page printed pamphlet entitled "The President and the Navy." On the inside cover appeared this statement: "The Navy League for over a quarter of a century has specialized on accurate information as to naval matters. . . . [Its] principal activity is to disseminate facts...
...have become acquainted with the intricacies of changing back and forth from day light to standard time. The Seniors without examinations are leading an envious life. The radio keeps going all day and time spent waiting for the wind to abate is always spent in playing ping pong or salvo...
...joint. In his usual gallant way the Vag abond played the game. "I find that front bites better with a Dowaglac." O God, O Montreal what had he done? Laughter, like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part of anatomy. From that opening salvo it was as impossible to turn the conversation into familiar channels as to stem the full tide. Those boys so normal in college days, who had hung on the Vagabond's every word with awe and rapture, now forgot him. Their talk was medical talk. Their tragedies were medical tragedies...