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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct the projected picture. Rather than have the film made on contract by an outside organization, he was put on the Resettlement Administration's payroll. By the time Lorentz was ready to begin shooting last September, he had employed a trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed...
...Chicago, Keeshin set about filing joint tariff schedules with six railroads as the result of an alliance agreed upon fortnight ago for truck-rail freight service, such as Keeshin started with the Rock Island line in 1934. About June 8, the railroads will begin picking up loaded Keeshin trailers on flat cars, carrying them by rail to their destination, where Keeshin tractors will make final delivery. The six: Baltimore & Ohio; Reading; Central of New Jersey; Alton; Rock Island; Chicago Great Western...
Free reviews to cover the work for the final examinations in large Freshman courses will begin tonight in the Union, according the tentative schedule released last night by the Reviews Committee...
...fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful to the stage directions, Wronski had wanted horses for the second act, engaged them with their drivers from a local coal company called Pittman & Dean. The horses were reasonably patient...
...Seeing Eye" has less difficulty finding patient dogs. Since 1929 the school has trained and distributed 200 German shepherds, reports that only 5% of the dogs brought to the farm turn out to be uneducable. The shepherds begin their training as soon as they are full-grown, are useful through a life span of ten years. Most breeders believe that bitches are steadier and more intelligent than dogs. The "Seeing Eye" has not found males markedly inferior to females, uses about three bitches to two dogs. "Seeing Eye" dogs do not, as many people suppose, memorize the blind...