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Many younger men with less diversified interests than 68-year-old Mr. Hearst have found private holding companies useful. Certain tax matters can be simplified, accounting made clearer, securities grouped under one corporate ownership which makes their distribution easy when desired. Publishing represents by no means all of the vast Hearst fortune. There is much valuable Hearst real estate in New York, California and Mexico. The San Simeon ranch near Los Angeles containing more than 400 square miles has been assessed at $1,323,000 for taxation, but this figure is dwarfed by the value of the art treasures...
There was fog in the morning and he planned to taxi the 15 miles to Muroton, wait there for clearer weather. When he tried to start, he found carburetor trouble, tied the plane to the Shimushiru and tried to repair it. His efforts were unsuccessful. Finally it was necessary to tie the plane to the ship and tow it. Even this was a failure. The towline broke, the plane was saved ,only by the agile efforts...
...program from the Mozart Festival at Salzburg, Austria: the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Conductor Bruno Walter (who will conduct Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony next winter) in an all-Mozart program; and part of a promenade concert at Queen's Hall, London, under Conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Clearer than NBC's first program, this one was not relayed but picked up by short-wave and re-transmitted. Symphonic-minded radiauditors were pleased. Heretofore radio policy had been to keep programs short: 15 or 30 minutes. Now competition between NBC and the Columbia system was making things look...
...East, and even more so to those of Greece and Rome, the greater part of the American people are the descendants of the barbarians of Northern and Western Europe. Year by year the story of their long but steady prehistoric progress toward the period of written history is becoming clearer. They owe much to the peoples of Central Europe, who had, in turn, ben awakened by the challenge of Near Eastern civilization, How these Eastern stimuli reached Central Europe and just what effect they had there is still not clearly understood, but the Harvard-Pennsylvania expedition will, if it continues...
...course of my study of the Spanish language I have been impressed by the fact that the term generally in use in Argentina in referring to foreign trade is 'intercambio comercial' [commercial interchange]. That, to my mind, is wider than our own and gives a clearer conception of the essential reciprocity of trade. Failure to recognize trade as interchange, obstacles placed in the way of reciprocal trade, are perhaps the main causes of the world's present trouble. If, as we all hope, the response of the Argentine purchasing public to the appeal of the exhibition leads in some measure...