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...Moscow the Soviet Government opened last week the first little Red schoolhouse for children of U. S. and British engineers and workmen now helping Russia with her Five-Year Plan. Fond parents faced painful alternatives. The school, as Soviet officials frankly admitted, will try to turn every pupil into a little Bolshevik. But the Government offered free tuition & textbooks, reduced streetcar fares and for each hungry pupil a heaping hot lunch at 15?-such a lunch as would otherwise cost in Moscow at least...
...their regular quarterly purchases, 15% of their annual requirement of materials, deliveries to be spread over six months. In addition he wanted every family in the U. S. to buy $79 worth of merchandise over normal needs for three months. His point: Buying in advance & in excess would insure workmen of continued employment for a definite period, enable them to help conditions by increasing their expenditures. The committee found the plan worth submitting to the public to determine its reaction...
Revolution in Paraguay last week was No. 7. Student-patriots banged shut their books. Radical workmen threw down their tools. Down the broad, bright streets of Asuncion they marched, an ugly cat-calling mob, to pull the political tail of Paraguay's sleek, feline President Jose Guggiari...
...colporteur was reading the parable of the Prodigal Son in a Paris cafe much frequented by North African workmen. A young kabyle became greatly excited. 'It is my life you are reading!' he cried. 'I am the prodigal son.' And he rushed out into the night...
...after the Akron went out into the world, workmen in the dock at Akron began laying out jigs on the floor in the form of great rings into which the main frames of the new ship, ZRS-5, are to be assembled. So confident was the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of the Akron's acceptance that as early as mid-summer President Paul Weeks Litchfield gave orders for the duralumin sheets for the new ship, and on July 1 fabrication of segments was begun. By last week much of the material had been fabricated and delivered to the dock. With...