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...death last month of Representative Kenneth Simpson (of Manhattan's famed "silk-stocking" 17th), Republicans picked Joseph Baldwin to run in a special election. Democrats picked liberal Lawyer Dean Alfange. The left wing of the American Labor Party picked Communistic Eugene Connolly, who was handicapped by his following of the corkscrewy party line...
...Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel helmets a quantity of cheap...
Still ahead lay other potential shortages -steel, copper, brass, power, freight-car manufacturing, foundries, shipping. As an omen of the shipping uncertainty, the price of imports-cocoa, rubber, silk-rose last week. Other commodities (flour, cotton goods, sugar) did the same. Meanwhile wages also nudged the trend. The woolen-textile industry upped wages 10%, and steelworkers met a U. S. Steel offer of 2½?-an-hour increase by a demand for 10?. By this week it was clear that, even if major strikes are averted, the U. S. economy was turning into a shortage economy. Higher inventories, higher prices...
...home as an English peeress (her resemblance to the girl on the boat becomes a comic asset rather than a plot difficulty). She gets him to marry her-then on the honeymoon train so out rages him with fibs about other men that he quits the train in his silk pajamas. Of course he sails for the Amazon again and so does...
Prices have been controlled. But paid in "occupation money"-printed in trucks as needed-German troops have twice the Belgian purchasing power, and use it to the hilt. They made great runs on silk stockings and woolen underwear. When Moën left, two out of three Belgian women were barelegged...