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Endurance. The weather was as somber as the darkest economic forecasts. This week the sun came out brightly for a few hours-for the first time in 22 days. In the 66 years London's Kew Observatory had been keeping tabs, there had never been such a long sunless period. Snow, icy gales and subfreezing temperatures were also out for endurance records. All week long there was frost, without a break. Reported the weatherman: "It's very rare to have continuous frost for more than three days; this sort of thing doesn't happen more than half...
...Sunless Days. From that time on Aimee spent much time in the courts and in the papers. There was a series of well-publicized battles between her and her mother over the management of the Temple, during one of which the ex-Salvation Army lass claimed that her reverend daughter had punched her in the nose. There were as many well-publicized reconciliations, and in 1930 the two went abroad together, where Aimee preached beside the Sea of Galilee, visited the nightclubs of Paris, and together they had their faces lifted. There was Aimee's third marriage...
...Lying in sunless crypts at West Point and elsewhere are some 86,000 tons of Treasury silver, U.S. and foreign. Its average cost to the Treasury was around 50? an ounce. To pay for it, the Treasury in effect manufactures paper money known as silver certificates, familiar to the public as $1, $5 and $10 bills. Each ounce of silver becomes $1.29 in paper money. This monetary magic permits the Treasury to use only a part of its silver as backing for certificates. The balance, called seigniorage or "free silver," amounts to some 40,000 tons. This the Treasury...
Still the biggest Sun headache is distribution, with home deliveries a migraine case. Suburban areas are practically Sunless. Dealers tell their customers they are "trying" to get the Sun, while roadmen report large bundles not even opened. Suburban Chicago custom is to deliver papers at the back door. The Sun is left, when it is left at all, at the front door. When one Winnetka housewife asked for back-door delivery, the newsboy said he couldn't do it because the back stoop belonged to the Tribune...
...nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished," he spoke a resounding mouthful. Last week the Federal Theatre made that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music, movies, lantern slides. Most of the dialog runs between an omniscient Voice issuing from a loudspeaker and a Little Man who springs out of the audience and wants to know...