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...them around in Philadelphia, was ruined when a street car smashed his wagon. At 46 he built a $1,000,000 chocolate factory in a Pennsylvania cornfield. As there was no town for miles around, he built one. Today every child knows the name of ruddy, thickset Milton Snavely Hershey of Hershey Chocolate Corp. who, at 77, still walks through his 50 acres of factory floor space, observing, suggesting, nibbling...
Equipped with a commentary written by War Correspondent Burnet Hershey with the editorial advice of Columbia University's Walter B. Pitkin, Dealers in Death illustrates its theme with shots of European munitions factories, portraits of the de Wendels, Zaharoff, Eugene Schneider, the Krupps, together with maps, graphs, battle & atrocity shots. Since it is intended as entertainment, Dealers in Death lacks sincerity as propaganda. Since it contains large quantities of propaganda, it is weak in entertainment. Nonetheless, not even the hackneyed sensationalism of its method can completely conceal the grim power of the picture's meaning...
...Next War" is a three-reel talkie written by Burnet Hershey, former war correspondent and deals with the evolution of the art of war from the early knights down to the present time as well as a vivid portrayal of the tanks, poison gas and other contrivances which are expected to be used in the next...
...Next War" is a regular talking picture produced by the Ideal Pictures Corporation of New York, and was written by Burnet Hershey, a correspondent with the A. E. F. during the World War, who managed to be present at several important engagements on the Allied Front...
From Idaho he went to Mexico, then emerged in San Francisco to found the successful engineering firm of Caetani, Burch & Hershey. It was making Prince Caetani rich when the War broke, but as soon as Italy joined the Allies he rushed home to serve his State. When he reached the front on the Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian...