Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then things began to happen, as a ripping sleet, hail, and rain storm hit the boats with the Crimson in the offshore lane. Up to this point the boats were rowing a usual race, with Cornell lagging with its characteristically slow start. The boats failed to emerge from the storm until after the race was ever, and at times they were completely obscured from the launches only a few yards away...
...those who would take Government out of business: "That school is eager to gamble the safety of the nation and of our system of private enterprise on nothing more than their personal hunch that if Government will just keep its hands off the economic system customers will just happen. . . . They are actually the wildesteyed radicals in our midst. . . . We are conservative New Dealers...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, mighty producing subsidiary of Loew's Inc., promised to spend $42,500,000 on 52 pictures, another $2,500,000 to advertise them. Headliners: Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (shelved in 1936); The Wizard of Oz in Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming...
Lumbering into the annual stockholders meeting of his substantial ($362,000,000) Consolidated Oil Corp., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair last week declared: "Either one of two things must happen. The price of finished products must go up or the price of raw material go down. I do not believe that this industry can continue to sell its finished products below the cost of raw materials...
Milwaukee's Hoan. Socialist Daniel Hoan grew pungent about what would happen in Milwaukee if WPA stopped: "There would be parades of hungry people through the streets. And they would be headed by Communists; that's the kind of fellows, you know, that get into these movements, and that means trouble...