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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With monotonous regularity the Securities & Exchange Commission continues to impress upon news readers the fact that corporation executives make a lot of money. Little has been done to give SEC's flow of fat figures any real business meaning. Most scholarly salary study to date was made by Economist John C. Baker in the Harvard Business Review last winter. Sampling 100 corporations great & small, Economist Baker discovered, among other things, that in 1929 U. S. management salaries averaged 6.6% of earnings, that in the five years through 1932 they averaged 10.8%. Last week, two more salary compilations were published...
...Lemke and Yale, Agriculture and Republican!" roared Father Coughlin by radio. "O'Brien and Harvard, Labor and Democrat! East and West! Protestant and Catholic, possessing one program of driving the money changers from the temple, of permitting the wealth of America to flow freely into every home...
Five weeks ago Dr. J. Clay of Amsterdam, who makes it his business to keep track of the invisible flow of cosmic rays through the sky, announced an inexplicable explosion of cosmic rays coming from a certain point in the heavens. Last week at that point in the sky a new star was seen to explode brightly. Hoping that the cosmicray burst and the starlight originated in the same explosion, Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology last week explained: "We have suspected for some time that cosmic rays travel faster than light and this may prove...
...grade potatoes from 1⅞ in. in diameter to 1½ in., which would make No.1 grade equivalent to what Nos. 2 & 3 were last year. Crop damage cut the period of Florida shipments, which began in March, from the usual two months to five weeks. The flow from South Carolina stopped fortnight ago after moving only half as long as usual. The Department of Agriculture has not yet estimated this year's crop but last week it predicted that the early crop would be 12% below 1935. 27% below the average for the last five years...
...famous "Thirty-Nine Steps," a superbly exciting mystery film in the very best Hitchcock manner. Robert Donst and the very lovely Madeleine Carroll play the romantic leads in a story which surges through a series of thrilling escapades all kept in the lighter vein by a steady flow of genuinely amusing dialogue. Probably the last chance to see a definitely out of the ordinary picture. The companion piece is amply entitled "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," the original stage title "Biography" apparently possessing too little of that certain lift which brings the boys rushing to the box office. Ina Claire...