Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will release four pictures through RKO* next year. The four, picked by Towne for their story value: The Swiss Family Robinson (published in 1813), James Fenimore Cooper's The Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne will stress his stories rather than his stars, hopes for big names but will insist on actors to suit his roles. His idol at the moment is George Bernard Shaw, who, after refusing for years to let the cinema tinker with his plays...
...Kaiser Wilhelm's day differs from the Germany of Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler's Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany's African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany's export and import trade, they are not the major factors in the altered economic picture...
Bilbo, Gordon & Co. would have the U. S. wangle 400,000 square African miles from Great Britain and France, accepting it as part payment on their War debts, later would buy supplies for the colony in the same way. The U. S. Treasury would put up $1,000,000,000 and guarantee the colony's bonds. Negro labor battalions would be paid U. S. Army wages ($21 to $30 per month) to prepare the land under U. S. engineers. Senator Bilbo vows that 8,000,000 of the 12,000,000 U. S. Negroes would hop at the chance...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...
...biographies, prefers not to be reminded of them. Payment Deferred, his grim study in murder, was a success on the stage and screen (it started Charles Laughton on his career), but did not sell well as a book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately. His best book, The General, a subtle attack on stuffed-shirt generals, sold 1,935 copies in the U. S. By Teutonic mistake, Author Forester...