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...topnotch independent clothing manufacturer whose buyers have also attended the Paris openings follows the same routine, except that he usually makes thousands of copies and sells to smaller retail stores. He it is who is responsible for the fact, that, within 30 days of the original showings, every shopgirl in the land is wearing a cheap imitation of what is the best Paris style...
There was not a single private railroad car in the yards of the Pennsylvania or Central of New Jersey at Atlantic City last week when the topnotch executives of every important Class I road in the land gathered to discuss the financial destiny of their industry...
...rains at all in the southwest held cotton around 12? per Ib. The Mississippi Plant Board reported an average count of 119 boll weevils to the acre, against 75 the week before, 323 year ago. Prospects of a reduction in breeding stock and mounting feed prices boosted topnotch hog prices to the best level since October ($5 per cwt.), cattle prices to the highest since September 1932 ($10.25 per cwt.). But few if any of the gaunt animals that shuffled into the stockyards last week qualified for these prime prices...
...with many an applicant turned away for inadequate scholarship. Its students are campus leaders-Princetonian editors, football men, class presidents. They spend their summers living abroad in native homes, attending government conferences. Each year the School has five "confer-ences on public affairs" of its own. From outside come topnotch authorities to inform and argue. Then students pretend they are a Senate committee, a New York City charter commission, a League of Nations assembly, proceed to thrash out the question at hand with all due form & ceremony. At this year's final conference last month the School...
...shot a bystander. Germany. Nazis celebrated by staging at Berlin's vast Tempelhof Air Field one of the greatest mass meetings the world has ever seen. It was best described by Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times who last week won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for topnotch foreign correspondence (see p. 59). Excerpts: "It has been said that there were 2,000,000 there. There may well have been more. No calculation is possible. Did anybody at home ever see 2,000,000 people gathered in one place? It is a stupendous sight. Imagine a great oblong...