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Careening down Waterloo Road to the Stockton Food Products Co. came a truckful of spinach. As it slowed to enter the gates, strikers leaped upon it, tore off ropes, tossed crates of spinach into the street. Others dragged Tony Machado, the driver, from his mesh-protected cab. Police rushed to his rescue throwing gas grenades. The strikers fell back coughing, charged again. Behind a barricade surrounding the cannery deputies opened fire with riot guns. In the first fusillade, Striker Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles...
...Crimson Waterloo...
...first place Fitton Field has for many years been a Waterloo for Harvard teams. There seems to be something about the place which causes the Crimson to fall completely apart and commit all sorts of baseball sins. Last year the nine was submerged 15-4, the team aiding the Crusaders to the extent of six errors and 13 bases on balls...
...levels without abating a mad metal market (TIME, March 22), was precise Sir John Campbell, economic and financial adviser to the British Colonial Office. Whatever Sir John's first considerations were as he walked into the highceilinged committee room in Brettenham House next to Waterloo Bridge, the problem at hand was essentially one of trying to keep skyrocketing rubber prices from knobbling the British armament race without jeopardizing anticipated profits in rubber, which will help Great Britain's balance of international payments. Result I was that the committee cautiously sanctioned an increase in production for the third quarter...
...unhappy contrast is "The Iron Duke", of which the only thing that can be said is that Arliss is Arliss, and a poorer one than usual. His usually quizzical expression is frozen into a leering grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone...