Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pupils do on "The Life of the Child" before and during the war. Drawings of child life during the war showed air fights and bombs going "Bon!" (Spanish equivalent for "Boom!"). Good sample of what war psychology means to a ten-year-old who knows high explosives better than he knows Dick Tracy was one drawing of an urban air raid in which war planes were carefully distinguished as tri-motor or single-motor jobs, small figures scurried for refuge stations. "Like bugs, poor darlings," said Mr. Weissberger...
...shrewdly philosophical Sergeant O'Hara of these volunteers, Cinemactor Robert Montgomery atones for much past preciousness, affirms what many cinemagoers discovered last year in Night Must Fall (TIME, May 10, 1937)-that he is an excellent actor. In his third cinema role, veteran Play Actor Charles Coburn (The Better 'Ole) gives a solid, bitter-edged portrayal of Dr. Carlos Finlay...
...Somewhat better than employment news were reports that lumber production, carloadings, power production, steel ingot production, although far below last year, were up last week, or better than the trend...
Ludlum Steel Co. of Watervliet, N. Y. had a better Depression record than most of the big, less-specialized steelmakers; last year it had net sales of $13,000,000, greatest in its 40-year history. With negligible facilities for producing flat-rolled steel, Ludlum sells about 50% of its output (wire, bars, etc.) to the automobile industry, the rest to manufacturers of machine tools, oil refining and aircraft equipment, stainless steel building products. Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called...
...Sultan of Zanzibar, who likes nothing better than sailing his yacht in the Indian Ocean and going to London now & then, came to his senses some time ago. But the English association was stubborn. Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub knew well that in a few more months his Sultanate would go through the East African equivalent of 776 and he might do little or no yachting. Finally, last week, news came from Zanzibar that an agreement had been signed, Indian pickets could relax. From now on the English association's monopoly will govern only half the trade in Zanzibar...