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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring speech, his own final declaration closing the Congress this week would have had to take Germany from words to action, and in Europe the masses had feared that with this speech the Führer might unleash war. However, a symphony rarely ends by blowing all the biggest horns, nor has Adolf Hitler ever up to now rattled to give notice before one of his lightning strikes, such as seizing Austria. His words this week simply advanced the German psychological offensive to a new stage...
Last year, when the ground started sliding away from under industrial feet, the axiom seemed due for testing. The networks began 1938 handsomely, ran up the biggest first quarter of their careers (11.4% above 1937's first quarter). The pinch came in April and some heads began to shake. But the axiom seems to be holding true. With an August boom, the networks began pulling out. Last week, gross revenues of the three major chains -MBS, NBC, CBS,-for the first eight months of 1938 came to $46,971,173, neatly topping...
...nine out of ten of whom originally lived outside the State, were born. His findings: parents from the northern States of the U. S. produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright children was in the far West; biggest proportion of stupid ones in the South Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas). Dr. Blair, whose doctor's thesis reporting his investigation was sponsored by Columbia University's Teachers College, offered no explanation...
...upon sprawling Utilities Power & Light Corp. As SEC announced it would do last July, it set about breaking up this "scatteration" of utility holdings in the first exercise of its most bitterly attacked utility duty. Attorneys for Associated Gas & Electric Co. and Atlas Corp., the two concerns with the biggest stakes in U. P. & L. since it went into 77B reorganization promptly indicated that the case might proceed to a Supreme Court test of the "death sentence," as most of the industry expected...
Thus The Netherlands-which has $1,000,000,000 invested in the U. S., second only to Great Britain-became fourth biggest U. S. customer (after Great Britain, Canada, Japan). Instrumental in arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer...