Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...
Jubilee. That the sardonic writer may have been just, though badly characterizing, was suggested during the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb two years ago. The common man in many a land shut off his electric light and sat quietly in darkness for three minutes to honor Thomas Alva Edison, and doubtless had many a thought for which there had not been time before. When the world's lights, cinemas and roar commenced again, common men displayed their bad taste by effusions which culminated in George Michael Cohan's song which said...
Chaos but not panic gripped world money marts last week. With the British paper pound (which fortnight ago was golden) gyrating madly up and down between $4.40 and $3.45 not a single exchange in Europe could function freely. Berlin's exchange was "closed indefinitely." From Berlin to Bucharest the governments of Eastern Europe either banged shut their bourses or chained up bear traders with iron rules. Tokyo's exchange was shut. Chileans learned, not without grief, that half the Central Bank of Chile's "gold reserve" is in British pounds-i.e. has turned to paper. Even...
...placing upon her clothes, which she is packing to leave him, a sprig of rosemary. A potent agent in the cinema for what is Good, True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have rooted objections to sentimentalized history. Good shot : Arliss dancing a minuet with Betsy (Doris Kenyon...
...women. About 15.000 commission salesmen represent them. Every year they ship some five million fruit trees and plants to all parts of the world. Thirty-five years ago in Iowa they discovered the original Stark Delicious Apple. Each year they discover new and better fruit. It was their Golden Delicious Apple which gave first impetus to the Buy- An-Apple Campaign to help the unemployed...