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Shuttling Operators. One big hitch is that the cheap cotton goods will probably not be on the market till next spring or summer. Whether their quality will measure up to OPA hopes, no one can say. For although specific standards of material and workmanship were set for the first 30,000,000 children's garments which will be made under the new plan, enforcement is probably tougher in the textile industry than in any other field.* A complex business, its operators can weave in & out of regulations as deftly as a shuttle on a loom...
...free international trade is more idealistic than realistic. Most European businessmen know that the bulk of their foreign trade must for some time be carried on by their governments through some form of government control and support. Many an industry must be nationalized, if only to keep it running till the knotty question of ownership, tangled by the Nazis' financial sabotage of Europe's economy, is cleared...
...Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet, aromatic pipe tobacco, please.' Or a pack of those little cigars. Or a box of snuff. Then they pop the stuff in their handbags quick, spin around and beat...
...great silvery plane rolled out of Boeing's plant at Renton, Wash, last week for its first secret test flight. Elliott Merrill, Boeing's crack test pilot, revved up the plane's four 2,200-h.p. motors till the earth trembled. Then the 130,000-lb. plane skimmed along the runway, lifted easily into the air. An hour later Pilot Merrill grinned: "She handles easier than...
...Boiling Pot. Said Frederick Duncalf, faculty committee head, "The fat's in the fire now." "It's hell," agreed alumni spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...