Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built its new boat from the ground up without help from Army or Navy. Long before the ship had flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
Handsome Spangler Arlington Brugh, 27, got into the movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...
...Chipping of Brookfield School is no great shakes as a schoolmaster, but he keeps it up for 63 years. Point of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which begins at the end of Mr. Chips's life, is that, viewed in proper retrospect, his career is not the meaningless blank it appears to be. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna...
...Margaret Webster, newsreel-length Shakespeare was a light chore at the end of a heavy season. Besides laboring at the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...
...they were confident that no more dreary months of 25% and 30% operations lay ahead-October would start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping for 50,000 tons. For the steel industry the days of on & up were coming back...