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...important act of man tends to upset the balance of nature. Last week along 1,300 miles of Pacific littoral, from far south of Point Conception to far north of Cape Disappointment, clouds of seagulls flapped anxiously over the waves, ranging out beyond their normal habitats to look in vain for ship-strewn garbage. Because Pacific coast shipowners and the maritime labor unions were fighting, the seagulls were going hungry. It had been this way for two weeks and last week's end brought no improvement...
...Shipping peers such as Lord Essendon of Furness, Cunard White Star and 27 other lines, expostulated in vain last week against the Government's announced intention to decrease or abolish British shipping subsidies as soon as mounting freight rates equal or surpass the rates...
...Moscow to disappear is usually to have been picked up by Stalin's secret police who are uncommunicative about their prisoners. Good Soviet sources told correspondents that Herr Streck was in jail, but why they would not tell, and his jailing was not officially confirmed. In vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave...
...main force of the White Army under General Jose Varela was fighting on the bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines...
...controversy raised its head: labor leaders prepared to urge the American Federation of Labor convention next week at Tampa to demand that Congress place the whole old-age pension tax on employers instead of splitting it half-&-half between employer and employe. This they proposed in vain when the Act was originally passed. Now they hope to succeed, being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority of employers will shift the tax to their customers, Labor as the largest consumer will pay most...