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...studios may heat up small sets, make actors too uncomfortable to do their best work. Beads of sweat on shapely noses and fine foreheads will ruin takes. Last week a bulky Dutch physicist named Cornells Bol, working at Stanford University, had film producers interested in a tiny, super-powerful lamp which will keep their stars cool while working...
...Goods Association. With the Christmas rush behind them, the Easter season dimly distant, the retailers took a full week off, stayed for a five-day meeting which included no less than 35 sessions, 170 speeches. Between sessions some retailers managed to squeeze in visits to spring furniture shows, lamp shows, corset shows. Attendance at Manhattan hotspots during the week showed a considerable bulge. For most of the retailers, however, the convention was serious business, coming under the auspicious heading of "Solving 1937 Problems of Retailing in the Public Interest." No more altruistic as a group than the National Association...
...Plant No. i closed it and crippled the Buick assembly plant which it supplies. Out of work in Flint alone were 14,600 General Motors employes; the local U. A. W. organizer called for $100,000 to finance the strike. Followed sit-downs in G. M.'s Guide Lamp Division at Anderson, Ind., its Fisher and Chevrolet plants at Norwood, Ohio. As U. S. factories closed for the long New Year's weekend, nine G. M. plants with 33,000 employes were already idle and the rest of the Corporation's 69 plants and 211,000 employes...
...sacrifice! The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace and my tomb remain uninscribed...
...bleakly. Jim Bridges got out of his chair, lit the oil lamp and sat down again. At 6:30 Pearl Bridges gave birth to a boy, at 6:32 to a girl, at 6:34 to a girl, at 6:36 to a girl. Jim Bridges fainted...