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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is nearest in style to grand opera, gives able singers most to get their teeth into. Last week The Yeomen was the offering of the eighth annual play festival in the plushy, chandeliered, 61-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Central City | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...eight large parking lots he slashed the 50?-fee in half. To find out why more customers weren't coming in he planned a questionnaire. It looked as though Grover Whalen would soon have to cut the general admission to 50? a head to get enough People of Today to patronize his World of Tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: What Price Tomorrow? | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Riding the competitive bidding wave today is red-faced Board Chairman Robert Ralph Young of Allegheny Corp., who has been in the middle of a hectic three-year fight to get control of Allegheny's railroad substructures, notably prosperous Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. Bob Young believes that at every turn Morgan interests blocked his way. One of his retaliations has been to get in the way of Morgan Stanley & Co. every time it goes after a railroad securities issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Young v. Morgan | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

During this retreat Groesbeck was not thinking of winning victories. He was thinking of saving his army. All through the winter, as he shuttled back & forth between Washington and Manhattan, Groesbeck wondered how he could get out from under, how he could forestall public agencies from building competitive transmission lines to his customers' doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Pat on the Back | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Canadian-born Explorer Kaulback, Tibet is no hermit kingdom, but a realistic Shangri-La whose glacial rocks, shrewd lamas, innumerable prayer-wheels, odoriferous grime somehow delight his Cambridge-bred soul. He had been to Tibet once before and was glad to get back: "It was good to taste real buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelogue | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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