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...scarring the turf, seldom lost more than a point or two in his service games; sometimes he won without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever as though Crawford was on the run. When Vines took the set and they started the last one with 23 games each...
Employment. And last week though the stockmarket dipped and commodities turned soft, business continued to improve -long after the normal summer decline usually sets in. In San Francisco Amadeo Peter Giannini declared the Depression '"over." upped salaries in his Bank of America, restored dividends. In Akron the tire industry, rounding out its preparations for the National Industrial Recovery Act, topped two increases in tire prices with a 10% wage increase. In Washington the Federal Reserve announced that its index of department store sales stood only 2% under a year...
Chase itself bought in practically all the collateral for $22,700,000. Included were 95,000 shares of Republic Steel, 50,000 shares of Cliffs Corp. (iron ore), 98,400 shares of Firestone Tire, 77,000 shares of Goodyear, 62,000 shares of U. S. Rubber. 55,000 shares of Goodrich, 350,900 shares of Lehigh Coal & Navigation and working control of United Light & Power. What Chase intends to do with these new possessions Chase would not tell last week...
...rounds. Then he found a way to tie up Watson's arms while keeping his own right hand free to pound his opponent's ribs with looping, hammer-like blows. Watson's ribs appeared to be steel-plated. Methodical and earnest, he waited for Chocolate to tire, held his own till the tenth round. Then, overestimating Chocolate's fatigue, he backed away from a clinch with his hands down. Chocolate saw his chance and took it with a left swing at Watson's jaw that sent him rolling into a corner of the ring, left...
...each & every raise,, whether it affected ten or 10,000, the Press thumped and boomed on its big bass drum.† Errett Lobban Cord, whose companies have never been noted for high wages, upped all workers in his automobile and aviation units 5%. Up 12½% went all Goodyear Tire & Rubber employes. Up 10% went wages in George E. Rogers & Co., Pittsburgh wholesale hay & grain dealers. The upping movement undoubtedly spread far & wide last week, but three things the Press did not report were: 1) What percentage of all U. S. workers received raises. 2) what the wages were before...