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...give no aid to the return of OPA. But bituminous coal prices had gone up an average of 40½? a ton a fortnight ago as part of the coal strike settlement. Ore prices edged up. So did pig iron. In Birmingham, two plants boosted prices $3 a ton. Scrap dealers were tightly hanging on to their scrap for the expected big boost and an acute shortage was in the making. The pattern of price increases among suppliers was plain; Pittsburgh gossiped that certain types of steel would soon rise anywhere from...
...next Council is not to be neutralized by a wave of non-confidence growing out of its continued denial of the democratic process, it must scrap the present plan of nomination-appointment and substitute a system of free election of representatives. It is generally conceded that the Houses provide a more cohesive group of elective units than do the classes, thus each of the Houses and Dudley should be allotted two representatives, to be chosen by open election in March of each year. The incoming Sophomore class would be represented by four men, to be chosen from the Yard...
Some Lever Bros. products were needed for background "scrap." We sent a researcher out to buy some. After visiting 16 stores she came steaming back to announce that only a few of the soap, oil, fat, etc. products we wanted were available, and didn't we know there was a shortage on. Luckman saved the day by sending us a boxful of the hard-to-get items. They're all gone now. After Artzybasheff had his pick, staff members hijacked what was left...
Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina and the Navy, is 84. He still loves a good scrap and the old Democratic Party, still hates booze, wicked women and the late Admiral William S. Sims. He has been working away at his memoirs for years. Tar Heel Editor (TIME, Dec. 25, 1939) was Vol. I of the series. Vol. IV. The Wilson Era: Years of War and After, covers the period from...
...plan would 1) elevate the Federal Security Agency to Cabinet status; 2) lump all Government housing under one agency; 3) abolish the office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines (July 4 is Philippine independence day); 4) scrap the NLRB function of conducting strike ballots; 5) transfer the jobs-for-vetefans function from Selective Service to the U.S. Employment Service; 6) transfer the Office of Contract Settlement to OWMR...