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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engagement. If he is really a top-notch band leader, and he must be, to command that salary, he is doubling in a large hotel or night club at God knows what figure; he will undoubtedly play in picture houses: make a movie short or appear in a full-length picture; and his his value as a cigaret or camera endorser will probably not be overlooked...
...atonement. Simultaneously Anaconda filed a registration statement for a new $55,000,000 bond issue. Listed as one of the underwriters was Mr. Mitchell's Blyth & Co., which will probably head the banking syndicate. Under the Securities Act, Mr. Mitchell must deal at arm's length with Anaconda, may not serve as a director of a company whose securities he plans to purchase for resale...
...three-letter standard English words built from such phrases as: "Try Phillips Dental Magnesia," "Get Phillips Magnesia Toothpaste," "Try Phillips Magnesia Toothpaste." Among the 40,000 contestants was a young Queens, N. Y. lexicologist named Ira Gustave Gillman, who compiled six lists, one for each phrase, ranging in length from 150 to 297 words...
...stepped into the pit, walked slowly across the coals, his face contorted. When he had reached the end of the pit, he turned around, walked the length of it again. Requested to make the crossing a third time, he refused, weeping. Going up to Harry Price, secretary of the London Council for Psychical Investigation which had brought Kuda Bux from India and staged the firewalking, the Hindu mumbled...
...expected that the full-length game will reveal much to the coaches that the ordinary short scrimmages have failed to point out, and extensive lineup changes may follow. In any rate the information gained will be of great value, more particularly as the motion pictures can be gone over again and again until every fault has been detected. Incidentally, although movies have been made of all games in the past few years, this is the first time films have been taken of pre-season scrimmage...