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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tycoon had smitten tycoon. The thews and sinews of St. Davids were those of the Chairman of the Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway, Argentine Great Western Railway, Costa Rica Co., etc., etc. When Tycoon Kylsant decided to smite back next day, he entered! the lists as Chairman of the Royal Mail, of the White Star Line and many another line, also as Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Rising to address a shareholders' meeting of one of his subsidiary companies the "Lord of the Seven Seas" shook his impressive mane of pure white hair and solemnly declared...
Suggest reporting among "Kudos" the awarding to Du Bose Heyward by the College of Charleston (S. C.) on May 14 the degree of LL.D. Mr. Heyward is a native of Charleston and the author of Porgy, Angel, Mamba's Daughters, etc. The College of Charleston was founded...
More recently (TIME, June 17) contracts have been let to other U. S. corporations-for a 100-million-dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine (to be the world's largest); for steel mills, coal mines, apartment houses in Moscow, tractor factories at Stalingrad, etc. etc. After 1933, Industrializer Stalin promises, if there is still necessity, to turn to lesser tasks-such as keeping the population supplied with food and clothing...
...Islands have two passenger cars and five trucks. Thus last week announced the U. S. Department of Commerce, presenting fresh statistics concerning the long familiar U. S. domination of the automotive world. Of a world's supply of 32,028,584 motor vehicles (exclusive of motorcycles, motorbobs, buckboards, etc.), 24,629,921 were in the U. S. A poor second was England with 1,128,200, closely followed by France with 1,098,000, and Canada, with 1,061,830. Germany, with 531,000, was fifth...
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand...