Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller do a kind of aquatic waltz to music while "aquabelles" and "aquabeaux" weave patterned water ballets. A water tumbler (whom Billy Rose forgot to call an aquabat) gets laughs from the water, while four custard-pie pantomimists get laughs on land. The revue finally explodes into a patriotissimic finale, featuring a supercolossal U. S. flag...
...with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land signal of distress, QRR. Soon W2CQD at Roselle, N. J., 165 miles away, picked him up, turned him over to nearer WiSZ at West Hartford, Conn...
...field of "Public Administration". John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, "Land Utilization in Worcester Country;" Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy. "Taxation of Property and Income;" A. Lincoln Gordon, instructor in Government, "Economic Planning in New Zealand;" and Richard Abel Musgrave, instructor in Economics, "A Comparative Study of Systems of Business Taxation in the United States, England, Sweden and Holland...
...discontented minority of Slovaks to dismember and appropriate Czecho-Slovakia. Today Yugoslavia has one of the worst minority problems in Europe, and last week Yugoslavia, once secured by French friendship and membership in the Little Entente and Balkan Pact, was in a tight spot: the no man's land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near East...
...while the U. S. has its hands full with the Civil War. Napoleon's instrument is a foppish but well-intentioned Habsburg archduke, Maximilian (Brian Aherne). Through an engineered plebiscite, Maximilian and his wife Carlota (Bette Davis) are duped into accepting the rule of a remote and turbulent land...