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Though Trotsky, whom Stalin ousted and exiled (TIME, Aug. 22. 1927), was the creator of the Red Army and its commander in the civil war with the Whites, the Soviet Encyclopaedia misleadingly asserts: "In the period of civil war Stalin was one of the leaders of the Red Army. With his name is connected a series of brilliant victories of the Soviet Republic in the battle with counterrevolution and foreign intervention...
...Dodge is an ex-vice president. Harley Clarke's General Theatres Equipment company is in a receivership and so is Fox Theatres. Loew's, Inc. (and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), again independent, remain solvent and prosperous, having made a profit of $4,034,000 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1933. But the disputed 660,000 shares of Loew's. Inc. (the majority holdings bought by Mr. Fox) have been segregated by the U. S. Government. They may be sold next month to satisfy Fox creditors...
...species of birds. Dr. Clarence Cottam (U. S. Biological Survey) heightened the birdmen's concern over the decrease in North American waterfowl (see col. 3) by telling them how brant and Canada geese have suffered from the strange disappearance of eel grass during the past three years (TIME, Aug...
Game Birds in America Inc. Alarming as it was, the statement sounded conservative to U. S. gunners and ammunition makers, already shocked by a rumor spreading throughout the land. The rumor, far graver than those of possible regulatory measures which worried sportsmen last summer (TIME, Aug. 28), was that a Federal ban would next year fall on all duck-shooting...
...hundred persons had turned out to watch. On hand were no admirals, no major generals, no tycoons such as graced the seven-hour ceremonies preceding the Settle flight last August which was brought to a quick and ignominious finish in a Chicago railroad yard by a defective valve (TIME, Aug. 14). Since then Soviet stratospherists had made the chances of a new record harder by ascending to 11.8 mi. (TIME...