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...Bill increasing the enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer of income tar publicity (pink slips...
...Carl Duisberg, 73, organizer in 1925 and chairman of Germany's great dye trust, the I. G. Farbenindustrie, head of the Reich Federation of German Industry until he resigned in 1931; near Cologne. While employed by Fr. Bayer & Co. (Aspirin and other chemical products), he produced such coal-tar dyes as benzopurpurin (red), azo-blue, benzoazurin, sulfonazurin...
...Smart Aleck" Sirs: . . . You better leave town after quoting from that smart aleck, Erskine Caldwell, because the Chamber of Commerces south of the Potomac will want to tar and feather you, and ride you on a rail for your dastardly inference that folks are starving in the South. I'll have you to know that we might have illiteracy, hookworm, inertia, lynchings, murder, pellagra and malnutrition, but never "starvation." They can starve in Russia if they want to (or if Hearst wants them to), but they better not starve in the South, because the Chamber of Commerce...
...Navy Departments do not want U. S. arms makers, on whom their preparedness plans are based, to be tarred, feathered and crippled to make a publicity holiday for Senator Nye. They have sufficient difficulty in getting what they regard as adequate appropriations for themselves. From their standpoint, if foreign governments can be induced to buy U. S. arms, that is a cheap way of supporting the Army's and Navy's own arsenals: du Pont, Remington, Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches...
...early period, Kokomo followed the frontier tradition. There were shootings, barn-burnings, tar-&-featherings. Somebody stole the elaborate metal hitching rack from the courthouse. Somebody else burned down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also...