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...much as 60%. The Furniture Code, which went into effect last December, helped stabilize prices by forbidding sales below cost. But the boom of last summer and autumn has died away, and the seasonal upswing stimulated by June weddings has been weaker this year than last. A tremor ran through the industry fortnight ago on reports from Chicago, hastily denied, that some manufacturers were about to cut prices...
...oppression. It is simply in accord with the weak and vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...
...most modern states a small case of simple graft would not be news. But as Premier Sulimov maintained last week his public rage, his investigation of the garbage soap, a tremor ran through Soviet officialdom. In Soviet Russia simple graft is punishable by death...
...Angeles outlet of C. B. S. felt the first tremor while the "MARCH of TIME" was being broadcast. The staff hastily improvised after the broadcast, began reporting the catastrophe as soon as the program was finished...
Honolulu, paradisaic melting pot of East & West, was tense with trouble last week. Yellow men's lust for white women had broken bounds. Short sharp disorders brought the tramp of soldiery through the streets. A tremor of apprehension ran through Hawaii's motley population- coolies from China, great Russians from Siberia, little Japanese crowded off their homeland, Portuguese, Porto Ricans, Koreans, Filipinos, sugar and pineapple workers...