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...Will he then make Viscount Rothermere's only son, Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, British Ambassador to Somewhere, as that young man and his doting father hope? Even in the face of last week's "miracle" such a development seemed remote?but the old guard politicians must work fast to avert...
...close indeed. But last year F. P. C. established its independence when a group of Canadians acquired control by purchasing a block of stock from Paramount and setting up a voting trusteeship. Soon afterward control was almost resold to Gaumont British Pictures Corp., Ltd., Fox controlled. Perhaps to avert some such catastrophe in the future, Paramount last week offered to exchange its shares for those of the Canadian corporation, a move that angered patriotic minority stockholders...
Employers, dreading idle needles in the boom season, tried to avert the strike, failed for lack of organization. Workers complained chiefly of "sweatshops" where girls worked as much as 60 hours per week for as little...
...spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
Working like a beaver President Luis strove to avert catastrophe. Timorous coffee brokers announced that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market...