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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediate reason why one-third (by mileage) of all U. S. railroads are in receivership or reorganization is their mountain of fixed charges (annual bill: $600,000,000), their recurrent burden of maturities. ICC, which must approve all reorganization plans, has lately shown determination to slash bonded debt before letting railroads out of courts, has insisted that stockholders must have real equities or be wiped out in reorganization. Last week two old offenders against the rules of sound financing got typically drastic sentences when ICC proposed its own plans for their recapitalization...
...that she was pursued by demons. Final confirmation of Chloe's story was provided by her belated recollection: "While mother was begging me to hit her with the hammer she asked me for a razor blade. I got one and gave it to her, and watched her slash her wrists." An autopsy confirmed the unsuspected fact...
Since then the "chemurgic movement" has gathered headway with soybeans for plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...
...Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought up a Catholic, but that he has since been "entirely dominated by his anti-Semitic...
...slash pine coastal flats of northeastern Florida one day last week went nervous, balding President Edward M. Mills of Rayonier Inc., world's biggest producer of the white, superfine dissolving pulps used by rayon makers for viscose yarn and staple fibre. No urge to fish in landlocked Fernandina harbor or take the sun on its 14-mile beach had taken him to Florida's northernmost resort, now sadly down at the heel. He went to see Rayonier's newest pulp plant for the first time since it went into production early in December. Ahead lay a beckoning...