Word: folding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Certain Woman (First National-Warner Bros.). Warner Brothers paid $25,000 in court costs in England last fall to compel high-spirited Bette Davis to return to the fold after her rebellion against playing an uncongenial part (in God's Country and the Woman), and her demand that her salary be increased was refused. Actress Davis herself spent $18,000 opposing the action, could be made to pay the $25,000 court costs as well, since the studio has not yet executed its judgment against her for the amount...
Said to be the largest unincorporated town in the U. S., Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature...
...advantage of college is two-fold: it blesses him that gives as well as him that takes. As the individual gains from the opportunities derived from his college training, he must be prepared to use these gains in useful services, both to the college and the community. It is frequently said that a man can get from college just as much as he is willing to put in. This is a true motto a far as it goes, but no college can be regarded as successful unless it produces graduates willing and able to support it for the benefit...
...flying fish has big pectoral fins which fold against its sides when the fish swims and spread like the. wings of an airplane when the fish is in the air (see cut). With wings folded, flying fishes' scull themselves rapidly to the surface with their big tail fins and then shoot out into the air at a low angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said...
...little trouble with the union as U. S. Steel. First-half profits were up from a measly $182,000 in 1936 to a fat $4,400,000 in 1937. For American Rolling Mill, whose name is not among the 260 steel companies in the C. I. O. fold, the six-month period was the best in its history-$6,600,000, more than the figure for the entire year 1929. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel made $11,700,000 in the first half, double its earnings for the same six months of 1936. And Steelman Weir...