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Barcelona is the proletarian Pittsburgh of Spain, but violently Catholic Bilbao, capital of the Basques, is a sweating, sulphurous Spanish Youngstown, its skies red every night with the belch of blast furnaces. Up to last week the bouncing, battling Basques had been almost left to their own quarrels by the Rightist Spain of Generalissimo Francisco Franco this year, but suddenly he sent General Emilio Mola with a mixed force of Spaniards, Germans, Italians and Moors swarming north over the Cantabrian Mountains to get Bilbao or bust...
...Republic Steel, busy last week with a deal to acquire Gulf States Steel Co., earned more than twice as much in 1936 as in. 1935-$9,586,000 compared to $4,455,000. Inland Steel's profits were up from $9,417,000 to $12,888,.000. Youngstown Sheet & Tube's from...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube made $6,845,000 in the first nine months of 1936 as against a measly $103,000 in the same months...
...School Superintendent Andrew S. Klinko had abruptly shifted Memorial's popular journalism instructor, sandy-haired 29-year-old Michael Graban, to a grade school. Up sped a squadron of police, ordered the strikers to disperse. When they refused, the police, hardened by many a riot in nearby steelmaking Youngstown, tossed two tear gas bombs into their midst, drove them coughing and sneezing down the street...
...which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated for the ministry. Passing on horseback, Rev. Thomas Hughes heard her prayer, offered to take the lad free to his Old Stone...