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Overjoyed at this evidence that Soviet workmen are finally getting the knack of how to use Soviet tools, Commissar Ordzhonikidze sent a letter of hearty approval to Donetz' Party Chief Sarkisov. Thereupon Chief Sarkisov promptly ordered: "The Stakhanov system must be adopted throughout the Donetz Basin and executives who attempt to hinder it will be dismissed. Above all there must be no change in the rates of payment. If a miner or group of miners can earn far above the average, let them earn it, because the country needs coal. If miners earn 2,000 or 3,000 rubles...
...College Plan units. Master of the College will be James Grafton Rogers, onetime (1931-33) Assistant Secretary of State, lately dean of the Law School at University of Colorado, now a professor at Yale's Law School. Master Rogers and his charges may be disturbed this year by workmen building the tenth College, Silliman, across Temple Street...
...trench, twelve feet long and six feet wide in good British soil at Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
Feeling that in these days of depression a Harvard man is likely to end up almost anywhere, Coach Dick Harlow of the Varsity football team has taken steps to prepare his men for a life before the Klieg lights in Hollywood. Yesterday workmen appeared on the Varsity practice field and erected a regulation photographer's tower from which cameramen will take movies of the Varsity in action...
...Fascist workmen in Trieste lately built for Poland a crack 15,000-ton liner as fine for her size as Benito Mussolini's 54,000-ton Rex. Named the Pilsudski, this spruce motor ship was delivered by her Italian builders last week at Gdynia, was paid for with 600,000 tons of Polish coal which Dictator Mussolini is now burning in the engines of Italy's State Railway. As the Pilsudski steamed in, by far the largest liner ever to fly Poland's flag, proud Poles who had arrived by excursion trains from all over...