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Wrigley's presents -- THE MARCH OF TIME! A new pleasure for you and a new way of presenting the news of the world! Wrigley's has chosen the man they believe to be the foremost historian of our time, Professor Bruce Hopper, to present to you today's enactment of the world's news. Unlike most advertisers, Wrigley's has no control over the program to be presented, but is content to sit back, as you are doing now, and chew a stick of Wrigley's while listening to the news as Professor Hopper has prepared...
...milestone was the announcement last week that American Airlines planned to sell equipment trust certificates to finance 60% of the cost of its 20 new Douglas planes. It was the first time that anyone ever considered planes suitable collateral for bonds, though equipment trust certificates backed by locomotive or hopper cars are an old story with railroads...
Railroad men prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with...
...Bruce C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, sails today for MOSCOW! He is going there to LEARN! He is a HARVARD PROFESSOR! When he returns he will give a new course, Government 41, a course which is called "SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY...
...Arctic! For pack ice is good for radio stations and even landing fields. What a merry mess for the lawyers! If an iceberg with a radio station breaks away and drifts down to Alaska, will "the constitution follow the flag?" The Vagabond chuckles in secret glee. Professor Hopper buttons up his coat again and waves his hand airily. Government 30 has its first laugh of the day. Russia, planning, famine, struggle--but enough. Back to the Tower to mull the wine and dip the croissants...