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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco News (Scripps-Howard), Cartoonist Douglas Rodger used the biggest political news of the week to make a bum out of the G. O. Pachyderm (see cut), captioned it "Memories...
...biggest game behind Europe's political scenes today is being played by bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and hawk-beaked British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Their goal is to win over to the side of Democracy, by means of financial favors, those countries which, impressed by Adolf Hitler's adroit bluffing show of power, last year decided, or almost decided, to line up with Nazi Germany...
Last week at Shawnee, 30-year-old Paul Runyan lived up to his reputation. First he eliminated Levi Lynch. Then he put out Tony Manero, Ray Mangrum, Horton Smith and Henry Picard, four of the game's master shotmakers. Facing him in the final was the biggest titan of them all, young Sam Snead, leading money-winning pro of the year and quite a bugaboo himself. Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs had reached the final 23 strokes under par (for 165 holes), and was 2-to-1 favorite...
...assistants, $45 for cataloguers, $50 for proofreaders, $55 for film handlers (negative matchers, film librarians, etc.), $65 for draftsmen, $75 for photographers, film editors, writers, etc. Like the U. P. and Mirror contracts, it included no provision for Guild Shop. The TIME Inc. contract was the Guild's biggest magazine negotiation...
...located at Coatesville near the hard coal country of eastern Pennsylvania. With total assets of $16,000,000, it is 14th largest in the industry, specializes in making steel plates for steamships and locomotives, nickel and chrome quality alloys. Last fiscal year, Lukens' net income was $158,218, biggest since 1929. But its operating costs also increased. When Depression II cut production as low as 35% of capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid off 1,100 of its 3,600 workers, still lost about $250,000 in fiscal 1938's first six months. Most...