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...ghastly fact had already been clear to British investors, who are taking a steadily dimmer view of Rank's future as a movie magnate. His producing enterprises have been in trouble before (in 1946 they lost ?474,777), but those were the hopeful days when Rank was talking of making 60 pictures a year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year...
...measures the distance of a star by studying its color, which changes as the light passes through the dust clouds of space. Shapley looks at variable stars, which grow brighter and dimmer with a regular period. This period often depends on the absolute brightness of the star; when Shapley knows the absolute brightness and the brightness as seen from the earth, he can easily determine the star's distance...
With prospects of a settlement dimmer than ever, other big unions talked of joining the printers' protest. Their common complaint: Peronista union bosses refused to negotiate for the raises which rank & filers thought they needed to meet the rising cost of living...
...Nizam's powers were shorn, his ministers were under house arrest, but he would probably salvage his wealth and royal trappings. Kasim Razvi faced a dimmer fate. In a broadcast to his followers on the morning of surrender he said: "This is the last time I shall be speaking to you." Then he disappeared. The next day he was captured by Hyderabad troops. Said he: "I gambled and lost...
...success in measuring the distance of dimmer & dimmer nebulae led to his crowning discovery-the theory of the expanding universe...