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...important gains had been in the South, where the history of labor wars is spattered with tar & feathers, gunpowder and blood. C.I.O. could boast contracts with textile mills in every Southern State except Mississippi. C.I.O. had organized sugar refineries, communications, aluminum companies, construction firms, auto plants, oil fields, newspapers, canneries, steel mills, coal mines...
...Sugar-coated steel is now being made, according to the American Iron & Steel Institute. Its advantage: when applied to molds, sugar is better than previously used pitch, tar, etc. in preventing molten steel from sticking to the walls and forming defects. The glossy caramel finish disappears during later processing steps...
...Tar-Heel Editor. An oldfashioned, liberal statesman is Josephus Daniels. Born in the second year of the Civil War, he grew up in the age of trust-busting and reform, became a disciple of William Jennings Bryan. As owner and editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, he fought the railroads, fought the power companies, feuded with the tobacco barons who made North Carolina rich...
...Mexico City this week Josephus Daniels wound up his affairs, made his last round of diplomatic calls. Next week he returns to the U.S. to work on the last two volumes of his memoirs, The Woodrow Wilson Era and The New Deal and the Good Neighbor Policy. (Already published: Tar Heel Editor and Editor in Politics...
...misinformation about the British Navy was published last week by the New York Times, which labors scrupulously to satisfy Secretary Knox. It published a picture of a British sailor being invalided home (he came into New York Harbor aboard the Empress of Asia) and captioned it "a bearded British tar whose ship was sunk in the Battle of Crete. . . ." All readers who glanced at the nameband on the sailor's hat (see cut, p. 45) got the erroneous information that H.M.S. Warspite had been sunk in Crete...