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...plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today as sabotage of the defense program. The press, with its usual uncanny feeling for the side of shinning...
...Wearing tin hats and carrying gas masks, interviewers for Dr. George Gallup's British Institute of Public Opinion lately went among the bomb-battered British people asking: "In view of the indiscriminate bombing of this country, would you approve or disapprove if the R. A. F. adopted a similar policy . . .?" The long-suffering British people divided 46% for, 46% against, 8% undecided, on giving the German people their own Luftwaffe's frightful medicine. But that was several days ago. Something happened last week in Coventry which probably changed the score...
...Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek Pan Am Douglas DC25, will begin competing with TACA's rebuilt, cratish "Tin Geese" (trimotored Fords...
...antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...
...Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull...