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Last week from Madison, Wis. the shadow of Ohio's late Senator John Sherman spread darkly across 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, 58 oilmen and three oil trade journals. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act they were all criminally indicted by a Federal grand jury for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935, and continuing to date, to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in interstate commerce, mainly in ten States of the Middle West...
...Mary-With Love loses pace by being told through the eyes of a bystander instead of a participant. For the same reason it gains sensibility. Author Richard Sherman, adapting in collaboration with Howard Ellis Smith, retained the same care with topical allusion that set his story above the average standard in the Saturday Evening Post. Excellent are the carefully dated gowns, furniture, and cliches ("You're the Berries," "Think Fast, Captain Flagg," "They Just Dropped In and Took The Place Over") ; the stock-shots of outstanding news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even...
Died. Lawrence Gifford, 43, Wartime aviator, brother of President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; at Saranac Lake...
Halcyon days of the U. S. sport of gliding were in 1929. Airplane tycoons like Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, spent big money to promote it because expert glider pilots can easily learn to fly motored planes. Detroit Aircraft Corp. purchased Gliders, Inc., biggest U. S. glider manufacturer, planned to sell gliders at cost. Glider clubs began to be organized. Conservative enthusiasts predicted 1,000,000 glider pilots...
...island of industrialism in the drowsy sea of Southern society, Atlanta attracted dissatisfied spirits who were fed up with the old order and wanted change even before the Civil War, became a vast manufacturing centre on which the whole South depended when the War finally broke. And when Sherman captured it the Confederacy was lost...