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...IT???Alden Brooks?Knopf...
...hard to believe that the South Pole can be vulgarized, but this has now been done and been done thoroughly. One would have supposed that the Antarctic plateau would have rejected the atmosphere of the studios; but Paramount has marvelously subdued it???split polysyllabic heroics over it, decorated it with sentimental ribbons, trodden it with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts?with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow...
Size?lack of it???is the distinguishing Austin feature. A tall owner (6 ft. 3 in. or more) lying under the car to tinker with its vitals would extend from wheel to wheel; a large horse (over 1,130 Ib.) would have a weight advantage in a collision. The full car length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will...
...north from a Florida fishing trip. A newsgatherer got him talking about something he and his younger brother, Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, seldom discuss: money. Dr. Mayo assured his interviewer of a fact which Rochester, Minn., has long known. The Mayo money?and there are several millions of it???will not go to Mayo heirs but to the Clinic...
...their 8% plus dividends might easily lead to a situation in which the Government would be forced by public opinion to curtail the Reichsbank's profitable right of issue. Under the new plan imputations of profiteering can hardly arise, yet the stockholders will receive?if they agree to take it???the liberal guaranteed return of 12%. "Fair" though this may seem, the net result was to send Reichsbank shares down from 319 marks to 310 last week. But they had risen to 319 from a quotation of 280 a fortnight previous, buoyed up by rumors that the Schacht Solution would...