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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of REA's cooperators are farmers in sparsely settled districts which the nearest private power company has put in "cold storage" until they become populous enough to be served with profit. To get an REA loan, farmers usually first organize a cooperative, convince REA field inspectors that they can afford to buy enough electricity to pay for the lines. Not grants in any sense, REA loans must under present policies be liquidated within 20 years. Interest runs at the rate the Government pays on its own long-term obligations, currently 2.77%. Both REA and Electric Home and Farm...
...arranged for the company to take out a $10,000,000 policy on Mr. Hill's life. Hearing of this. Jimmy Roosevelt called up Warm Springs, Ga. when Mr. Hill was visiting there. "Tell father to be nice to Mr. Hill," he told a secretary. "I want to get his insurance." He did, about $2,000,000 worth...
...failures was to get the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. business. On this attempt, strangely, he was accompanied by his father's bitter political critic, Congressman Hamilton Fish, a director of one of the insurance companies represented by Jimmy. Loud Mr. Fish did the talking and President Walter S. Gifford of A. T. & T. was not helpful...
...victimized by a female fortune hunter. From here, The Rage of Paris plunges rapidly through every impossible variant of a not-too-original situation. Best line: comment of the driver of a milk truck when Nicole, wearing an elaborate evening gown, begs a lift: "These hitchhikers get better dressed every...
...frothy comedy designed to capitalize both her talent for wearing expensive clothes and her as yet imperfect English. Taking no unnecessary chances, the company assigned as her director Henry Koster, who in the first two Durbin pictures managed to emphasize the star's girlish naivete without letting it get completely out of hand. Result is a pleasingly preposterous little fable which, while more sophisticated than any of Miss Durbin's contributions, rivals them in its fresh and energetic charm...