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...Criticism. U. S. businessmen in France have hitherto been trading on a 60% average tariff basis. All were convinced that the same arrangement would be carried on under the new law. Why, no one could say. But U. S. businessmen were solid and emphatic in declaring that the least the French could have done was to continue the old arrangement pending the conclusion of the projected commercial pact between the two countries...
...rarely engages in one-night stands. The Theatre Guild (Manhattan), however, has decided to try. This winter it will send a company of actors well-known to play-goers?George Gaul, Florence Eldridge, Molly Pearson, Lawrence Cecil, Erskine Sanford, Frederic March, Hortense Alden, Dorothy Fletcher?into small towns where hitherto it was thought only the cinema could penetrate with profit...
...filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving of his torch, reached a hitherto unknown exit after wandering 70 miles through dark and crusted corridors...
...peculiarly human attribute, will be puzzled to hear that the strutting of cock birds, the romping of dogs and even the protective coloration of plants, are not functions of the instincts of sex, combat, self-preservation, etc. but are, according to theatrical M. Evreinov, expressions of a hitherto unnoticed "theatre" instinct, deepest...
...Jenkins' invention did not, however, enable a plane to depress its wings, bird fashion. It was an adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead...