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...request for his visit was made with the hope that satisfactory and mutually beneficial arrangements to care for the bond issue might be made. The arbitrary attitude then assumed by Mr. Bitting, and which finally prompted his unprecedented tirade against the Methodist Church, prevented the making of any headway...
...booking is the system whereby exhibitors rent pictures in job lots instead of singly. It gives producers an outlet for their unpopular pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made any headway in preventing it from becoming standard practice in the industry. Even such a product of the New Deal as the Cinema Code had to bow to block booking-a fact which caused Dr. Lowell to refuse a seat on the Code Authority (TIME, Jan. 1). Remarked cynical Terry Ramsaye...
...nearly a month brokers and businessmen have been parading their objections to the Stock Exchange control bill before House and Senate Committees. By last week they had a warm feeling that they had made good headway toward modification when Ferdinand Pecora retired with his squad of bright young legalites to round off the measure's harshest features. A new draft will be submitted this week. Probable revisions include...
...automobile industry stalked out of Depression wearing all the airs of chanticleer. It fashioned some 2,040,000 cars, 42% above 1932. Its sales not only bulged in May and June when all industries were booming, but afterwards, when other industries felt a reaction, it continued making headway. In darkest November it did 108% more business than in November 1932. And in spite of a two-month strike of tool and die makers, in spite of mechanical and style changes which seriously retarded the production of new models, the industry came into the New Year as if 1933 were...
Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail. When the steamer is at rest, or barely making headway, the drag-sail trails below the surface. There it lies while the plane taxies up to the steamer's stern. As soon as the plane is in position, the Westphalen picks up speed, with the plane taxiing after her. The towing force lifts the drag-sail to the surface where it smooths the water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane...