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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Los Angeles' sunlit harbor one day last week wallowed the 156-foot three-masted schooner Metha Nelson, her once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story...
...learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City in a light rain, westbound for Billings, both engines of their Lockheed Zephyr had, for some reason still unexplained, quit. Husky square-jawed Pilot Chamberlain, gallantly trying to get back to the field, went down in a gulch, 1,200 feet short. The ship, striking at fearful speed with a 25-mile wind on its tail, crashed into jagged pieces, burned to ghastly junk...
...Radio has no prescribed wage scale, although most big agency production units pay a basic wage of about $25 for a 15-minute stint, rehearsals included. Featured Artists Service, Inc., the Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums...
...guess he would have me come over wearing my clerical collar-and get murdered. . . . Any word or action of the Spanish Loyalist Government friendly to the Church must be taken as a sign of fraud, or of self-deception, or of the repudiation of its principles...
...October 1939) the total of all profits and wages of Hormers Austin plant will be reckoned up. At year's end this theoretical kitty will go 80% to employes, 20% to stockholders. If the employes' 80% fails to cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four weeks' additional pay. After that, if there is any money left, it will be split...