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While Ontario bowed to a big wind from the U.S., Manhattan last week experienced a big wind from Ontario. Through western Ontario last week whipped a devastating near-hurricane, strayed from Texas (see p. 22), that killed three people, leveled grain fields, pancaked buildings, blocked highways, raveled out power and telephone lines. And into Manhattan on a three-day good-will visit blew dimple-chinned, corpulent Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn, who, in or out of politics, acts as if he were equipped with a built-in hurricane...
TIME, Sept. 8 states: "A few small wind-driven generators, with three-day storage batteries, have been used for private residences, chiefly in England...
...small wind-driven generators, with three-day storage batteries, have been used for private residences, chiefly in England...
Chungking really got it last week. In one 24-hour period, there were 22 hours of alarm. In one three-day stretch, there were 50 hours. The Japanese came over seven days...
...where 22,000 hosiery workers face unemployment within two weeks. In Burlington, N.C., for example, a shutdown would affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon, and that women will buy rayon hose, 3) to urge Du Pont to relax its rule that nylon hose can contain no rayon or cotton. Half North Carolina's mills can knit nylon, but as yet only...