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...breweries pay dividends of 20% to 30%. 3) Adolf Hitler. Strasbourg's prosperity does not entirely cover the province. Wool-weaving, cotton-spinning Mulhouse is as badly off as any of the cities of the South, and in no other province is the break between Socialist workmen and Fascist merchants and manufacturers more obvious. Correspondent Stowe talked to one Paul Bourson, who said...
...Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...quickly to the board, he was pushed beneath the knife. The executioner tripped the lever, the triangular blade crashed down-and jammed, half way down. "Imbeciles!" bellowed Murderer Sarret. "Be quick can't you!" For ten minutes he lay with his head on the block while perspiring, embarrassed workmen argued and tinkered. Executioner Deibler clutched at his weak heart. Then up went the knife to crash down again, successfully this time. Guillotine and crowds were gone and the square hosed and washed before breakfast...
...railroad industries. The contracting employer deducts a set sum* from each employe's wages, turns it over to a physician or hospital association. In return the physician or association agrees to furnish within stated limits all medical and surgical service to employes, except for injuries covered by workmen's compensation laws. More than 500,000 workers in 37 States are thus insured against the costs of sickness. Albert Wellington Bridge's friends think he might have become a great industrialist. Orphaned son of a Vermont farmer, he decided early that there was no proper room...
...loudspeaker broadcasting a dispassionate critique of the Russian experiment; in the park he has a religious discussion with the deaconess who runs the mission across the street from his factory. He falls asleep on a park bench, has a nightmare from which he is wakened by one of his workmen, with whom he goes home to supper. They discuss the labor situation. When the efficiency expert finally takes his leave, he has sworn to stick by the men somehow. Inference is that he will walk out with them when they are discharged; more, that he will perhaps become a working...