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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Josef Stalin cracked down on Russia's noisy modernist composers. He accused them of "bourgeois degeneracy," confiscated their compositions, told them to stop imitating the sound of Soviet steel mills and cement-mixers, get themselves a few singable tunes. Since then, presumably, the party line in musical Russia has been all nightingale and lark. But because the machinery of the Soviet Musical Bureau (which owns all manuscripts, controls all performance rights) needs oil in its joints, not many examples of this New Musical Policy have been heard outside Russia...
...were lucky enough to get into Duke's Stadium, this year's game was something to see. There were four triple-threats on the field: Duke's two famed McAfee Brothers and Carolina's equally famed "Sweet" Lalanne and George Stirnweiss. At half time, Carolina was leading...
...biggest bank, the Continental Illinois, which had taken a bad licking in Willys Overland, and on Insull securities, was the first big time U. S. bank to step up and take advantage of Jesse Jones's offer to buy preferred bank stock with RFC funds. To get new capital Continental sold him $50,000,000 worth...
...tropical hurricane out of its orbit swarmed through New England like a banshee on a binge. From Long Island Sound to the tip of Maine it cut a swath 300 miles long, 100 miles wide. With its blast it felled 2,250,000,000 board feet of lumber. To get this average five-year cut into ponds, into neat stacks before bark beetles and fire took their toll, the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Timber Salvage Administration went to work. By last September it had bought 600,000,000 feet of hurricane timber from some 30,000 owners...
...Jesse Jones, who likes to get RFC's money back, this was presumably good news. On the other hand, Banker Jones also likes to keep a grip on key properties like Continental Illinois-it has a useful fiscal finger in many pies, especially railroads and bankruptcies, which have given it large profits, the RFC much useful information...