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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roller coasters. Dwarfing them all is Life Savers' 250-foot Parachute Jump. Using hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them down in ten. In its first three weeks the Jump fetched 68,000 customers at 40? each, among them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin. Other parachuters : a couple who hold the riding record (nine trips), a blind man, a legless War veteran...
...must reckon its apportionments of aid by jobs instead of by dollars among the States...
...market favorites as Chrysler, U. S. Rubber and U. S. Steel were forced to share popularity with stocks which speculators seldom bother with: food stocks-Standard Brands, National Biscuit, Kroger Grocery -even such a market bush-leaguer as Safeway Stores (third in number of stores, second in sales volume among U. S. food chains). Meantime steel, auto, chemical stocks bobbed indecisively up & down...
Extraordinary-for 1939-were conditions in the shipyards of the U. S. when the Navy last week split $350,000,000 of new shipbuilding business (for 24 ships) among five companies and seven navy yards. Private shipbuilders got $107,131,000 of orders for twelve ships, divided among...
...Never Sets (Universal). A year ago his grateful country awarded the Order of the British Empire to shaggy, 75-year-old Britannic Cinemactor C. Aubrey Smith, and why not? His gruff charm, his unwavering personification of the stiff upper lip that always dresses for dinner, especially among savages, has made him an effective one-man propaganda bureau for the British virtues. The Sun Never Sets is another reminder that, as long as C. Aubrey Smith, O. B. E., remains above the horizon, the Union Jack will continue to fly at full staff over Hollywood. His main service in this cinema...