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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unreported at week's end was the production schedule of United Artists Corporation, owned by retired Stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Producers Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda. A private corporation, United Artists keeps its business largely to itself, occasionally gloats in the trade press over large but unrevealed profits. Month ago the five owners met, split a modest melon...
Last week, with demand and prices still falling-on the London Metal Exchange copper dipped well below the 9? figure-producers shivered, for many a mine goes into the red when copper brings less than 9? a pound. Momentary relief came at week's end when German censors, after 15 days' delay, finally released figures on the Reich's copper stocks.* With these in hand, April foreign copper statistics could at last be compiled. These showed that foreign stocks of refined copper were reduced during April from 197,470 to 185,916 tons; that world refined stocks...
...been even larger: 800,000,000 bu., second largest winter crop in U. S. history (largest was in 1931). Spring wheat will bring the year's total well above a billion. Last week wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade hit new lows since 1933. At the end of the week May wheat had fallen...
Despite the sudden end of the suit in Judge Geiger's court, another suit before another judge was still an immediate possibility. The companies (General Motors and G. M. A. C. excepted) continued to negotiate with the Attorney General's office for a consent decree. But the final draft proposed last fortnight by the companies' lawyers had so many complicated provisions that the jittery independents thought it was designed to give them even less business than usual. Negotiations broke off. Thurman Arnold had the criminal case reopened before a grand jury in Judge Thomas W. Slick...
Toward the last third of the journal, when Homer is in his 40s, he begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...