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As was expected, Tom Girdler's Republic Steel made the worst showing in "Little Steel.* The strike centred on Republic, as the official release from the Girdler office understated it, "because of its determined efforts to carry on operations." Earnings in the June quarter were only $487,000, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strike Earnings | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

In an industry whose wage earners range from Greta Garbo to $4-a-day porters, labor troubles are inevitable, complex and continual. Current Hollywood labor troubles have centred around three groups: actors, technicians, writers. Last week, all three groups contrived to make more progress in one direction or another than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Barricades | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Nudes have never been rejected by the Royal Academy, but they have always had to be genteel nudes. Ablest figure in the Academy was Model Resting by David Jagger (see cut). Round this a small storm centred, not because the well-painted figure was nude, but because her toenails were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: British Academy | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Who But Joe? For the moment, Washington's chief interest centred on the question of who should succeed Justice Van Devanter. Immediately dopesters trotted out the names they have been considering ever since Court enlargement was proposed: James McCauley Landis of SEC, Donald Richberg, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Felix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Justice Retired | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Telescope Robot. Photographing the spectrum of a distant star, even in Mt. Wilson's giant telescope, may take four or five hours. One of astronomers' most tedious chores is to sit on a lofty, cramped perch at the eyepiece during these long exposures, in order to keep the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants in Chicago | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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