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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slowly from 49,750 in 1933, to 199,315 in 1937. Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined by 38,000,000 pairs in 1938. After the famine year of 1932 consumption of foodstuffs jumped: average working-class family in Moscow got twice as much meat, twice as much butter and sugar. But in 1932 only 35,000 tons of butter were sold in the Soviet Union, only 49,000 tons of milk. (U. S. consumption: 51,128,000 tons in 1932.) But by 1935, 207,000 tons of milk were sold...
...every performance of Hellzapoppin (see above}, a hireling sits in the audience clocking the belly-laughs (he ignores giggles). Early in Hellzapoppin's run, claim producers Olsen & Johnson, the show got at least 482 laughs a performance...
Last fortnight the pagoda got to Mrs. Roosevelt safe & sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last...
...got a bull, King Stephen...
...spite of these minor discomforts, and in spite of an earlier bit of snootiness on the part of Lady Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador to the U. S. (see p. 15),* the King and Queen got a good press last week in the U. S. as well as Canada. Some of the credit went to fat, genial Walter S. Thompson, chief publicity agent of the Canadian National Railway System and pressherd of the Royal Tour. Some went to the press itself, which was notably well behaved. Most of it went to the King and Queen, who cor rected...