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...American of military age whose college years were spent in the heyday of pacifism at any price, I can fully appreciate the fact that here in America we do face a crisis...
...heyday of vaudeville two types of acts got a percentage of the box office-those that were so uncertain nobody wanted to pay them much, and those that were good enough to draw crowds. Nearest thing radio has to a box office is telephone-polling Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley) surveys. Comic Cantor's pay, based upon...
Most people think of the Moby Dick era as the heyday of whaling, but whaling did not actually reach slaughterhouse efficiency with floating factories and motor launch harpoon-gunning until the 20th Century. In the three centuries from 1620 to 1920 the average whale catch was about 3,000 a year. In the 1937-38 season 54,664 whales (yielding 615,500 tons of oil) were taken, the greatest number in history. Writing in Science recently, Dr. Murphy observed that during the 1938-39 season a record kill may again have been perpetrated, but there were so many ships...
...heyday the Emperor Franz Josef liked to do things on schedule. At 4:30 in the morning three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens of Schonbrunn, slipped out through a secret gate, and presented himself at a little yellow cottage at Gloriette Road No. 9. There he was greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated...
...Obstacle. Latin America, in previous U. S. experience, is a bum risk. Haunting the U. S. money markets are 155 defaulted bond issues of (or guaranteed by) 16 Latin American Republics. They represent 77.1% of the $1,600,530,070 (178 issues) floated by Latin America during the heyday of gold-plated foreign bondjobbing. After seven years of Good Neighbor talk, some of these cats & dogs are still selling for one and two cents on the dollar. This debris of the last spree is the first fact to be explained away by all advocates of new credits...