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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm Hailey, to an influential Conservative M. P., Sir Henry Cautky, and finally to that British automobile tycoon who got his start making sheep-shearing machines for Australians and grew rich building the "Baby" Austin car. Every step of the way Herbert Austin has had to buy and pry his honors from the snug ruling class, his latest expense having been $1,250,000 presented to Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, for "physics research." That charity reputedly clinched the barony, upped the Baby Austin's maker into the House of Lords...
National Editorial Association was founded 51 years ago in the interest of the "little fellows" of U. S. journalism: editors and owners of weeklies and semi-weeklies of modest, local circulation. The Association grew to include some 3,500 members, set up a Washington lobby to see that their cherished patent medicine advertising was not jeopardized, awarded annual prizes for excellence in typography, editorials, job printing. With Depression, N.E. A. fell on evil days. Some 1,000 members defaulted their dues and pessimists saw the end in sight. Last week a new lease on N. E. A.'s life...
Unlike other cities of the Old South, Atlanta, Ga. was a modern industrial community from the start. Staked out just one hundred years ago as a railroad terminal, it soon grew until four important lines crossed there. Its commercial activity had few attractions to Southerners who were trained to the slower pace of plantations, while its pushing, aggressive, competitive life made it distasteful to the leisured aristocrats of Savannah or Charleston. But as an island of industrialism in the drowsy sea of Southern society, Atlanta attracted dissatisfied spirits who were fed up with the old order and wanted change even...
...nursed her passion for Ashley through the hard War years, was determined to get him in the end. But Ashley's love for Melanie grew stronger, and both became quiet, strong, kindly, while Scarlett grew more venomous in her disappointment. At the fall of Atlanta, Scarlett, to keep her word to Ashley, took Melanie and Melanie's newborn baby through the retreat to the looted plantation. She found the countryside in ruins, her mother dead, her father mad. She almost starved, had to learn to do all the work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed...
President McDonald concentrated on short-wave sending and receiving sets. He took with him, on the MacMillan expedition of 1923, the first short-wave set ever operated in the Arctic. On big home sets Zenith's earnings grew from $121,000 in 1925 to $1,109,000 in 1929. When grief overtook the radio business in 1929, Zenith fell with saving promptness into the pattern of retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery...