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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the Crimson intra-mural puck-handling, the Jayvees will be combined with the House teams. During Mid-years the managers of the various Houses are planning to recruit and organize all those interested. Located conveniently in Brighton, the Skating Club's ultra-modern building contains the largest indoor skating surface in New England and is furnished with elaborate locker and shower rooms...
THIS volume should attract attention if only for the reason that it contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...guns and shells bearing the well-known trade-mark Skoda, made in Czechoslovakia will henceforth go only to those countries in goosestep with Hitler. The French Schneider-Creusot interests, which since 1920 have had a big interest in Skoda, Europe's second largest munitions works, last week sold their shares to CzechoSlovak interests. For thus recognizing "changed conditions" in eastern Europe, the former French shareholders were paid...
Annually for the past five years Charles Babb has sold between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of airplanes and airplane equipment, largely to clients in Alaska, Mexico, Central and South America. His smallest sale was his first, a $700 reconditioned and guaranteed Eaglerock three-seater. His largest: $400,000 worth of assorted ships for export to France in 1936, intended, he guesses, for Loyalist Spain. As sidelines he rents ships to Hollywood cinema studios, runs a skywriting business, operates the Ryan and Stinson agencies for Central and South America...
...which had backed the new Emperor Meiji, emerged as the most potent financial force in new Japan. Masuda, now an exporter of rice, tea and silk, joined forces with the Mitsui family in 1876 and launched Mitsui Bussan Kai-sha (Mitsui & Co., Ltd.), the trading firm which became the largest single unit of the vast Mitsui empire...