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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week which was trying to many British businessmen (see col. 3), the nation as a whole was cheered to have its faith in the British Navy renewed by Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, who, as First Lord of the British Admiralty, has been increasingly often mentioned as one of two or three statesmen with a real chance of becoming Prime Minister. Sir Samuel would certainly know, reasons the average Englishman, whether there is any validity in the rumors that Air Power has now outmoded Sea Power. This onetime Air Minister was Foreign Secretary when Benito Mussolini faced down British ships...
...holding company was formed in 1929. At the end of two years Mr. Fairchild had had enough of the boomtime merger, arranged for his company to regain its independence. Since then he has collected for Fairchild a notable roster of executive and engineering talent, including such names as Col. John H. Jouett, famed "father of the Chinese air force"; James S. Ogsbury, a high-powered onetime International Business Machine executive; Col. Virginius Evans Clark, successively chief aeronautics engineer to the U. S. Army, to General Motors Corp., to Consolidated Aircraft Corp. to Aviation Corp...
...This structure, two stories high, has been designed by the engineering staff of the Boston and Maine railroad to withstand wind velocities of over 200 miles an hour, and will be anchored by bolts sunk four feet into the rock. Construction is already in progress, under the direction of Col. Henry N. Teague...
...President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, Admiral William H. Standley, No. 1 U. S. sailor, and those two inveterate tourists, young Nelson Rockefeller and his uncle, Board Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank...
Ramona (Twentieth Century-Fox). The cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography...