CABLE BREVITIES
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Losses Through Strikes General Motors for the second year report a decline in their earnings of 22,377,000 dollars due to the strikes which are attributed to the inability of the union leadership to control their followers. There were only ten working days without interruption during the quarter. Airships as Plane Carriers Admiral Cook, chief of the American Bureau of Aeronautics, testifying be-t fore the Congressional Committee, advocated the building of airships for aeroplane carriers. He indicated that the Navy is planning a 10,000,000-cubie foot airship, carrying nine bombers, Britain's, War Pension Bill Tho annual report of the British Ministry of Pensions shows that war pensions sinee 1914 ocst £1,192,000,000, equal to twice the British pre-war national debt. Beneficiaries total 1,000,' 000, compared with the' peak of 3,000,000. Road Deaths in U.S.A. Motoring fatalities in the United States for the first half of 1937 total 17,200, a 13 per cent. increase.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 4
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