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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What at first sight appeared to be a fire in the Cambridge Fire House Saturday morning turned out to be just Spring house cleaning in the firemen...
...last week defending plane scouring the skies caught sight of a small squadron of the attackers, one battleship and a few fast cruisers, which had steamed ahead of the rest of the fleet. They were heading not for strategic Oahu but for the island of Hawaii, largest of the group which lies some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Hilo, second largest city of th Islands, situated on Hawaii, received warning an hour in advance. Its airport was evacuated. Within a few minutes bombers from the fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore...
...Curtis Publishing Co. bluffing Pennsylvania, hoping to force tax adjustment? Not according to Mr. Collins: "We've gone beyond the maneuver stage long ago. There is no remedy in sight in Pennsylvania. Our sentimental impulses are not toward moving. But we are faced with facts, not sentiments. We are studying the question from all angles, costs, legal and financial complications. When we have completed these studies we will make our decision and stick...
...grade ore in the Mesabi Range which holds 1,200,000,000 tons of ore all told compared to 65,000,000 in the Menominee, the next richest. And especially fortunate is U. S. Steel Corp., which owns or controls 60% of the Mesabi, has enough ore in sight to last 50 years...
...What's the Matter with Kansas?* Famed Republican Boss Mark Hanna plastered the U. S. with it in the McKinley-Bryan campaign, offered its author his pick of a job; big city dailies did the same. Editor White turned down both offers, but did not drop out of sight. From then on he was No. 1 U. S. country newspaper editor and prairie philosopher. Forty Years on Main Street is a collection of his editorials, grouped by subject, covering the best of his output. The result is an interesting bit of Americana combining a Main Street diary, a graph...