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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bath's principal claims to fame are its Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
...When she did her famous bronzes of 101 racial types for Chicago's Field Museum, she performed a sculptural-scientific job of Leonardian scope, proved to countless U. S. citizens that sculpture could be scholarly. In the four years since then, 51-year-old Sculptor Hoffman has done less notable modeling, more writing. In her latest book* she offers students and laymen a drilled-eye view of a tough craft...
...though Dennison Manufacturing Co. has had no labor trouble for 40 years, its stockholders in recent years have been less contented. With an average annual net since 1929 of only $200,710, compared with $1,072,844 for the previous ten years, the company has run up arrears of $1,275,291.50 ($49.75 a share) on its preferred stock...
...Lima Locomotive Co., third largest in the U. S., feasted in 1937 when it made 101 locomotives at a profit of $1,019,983, first since 1930. Last year Lima got along on beans-it made ten locomotives and lost $687,035. This year Lima is dining a little less frugally-it got an order for twelve locomotives in February. And last week Lima had a new face at the head of its table. Vice President John E. Dixon became president in place of Samuel G. Allen, who remained as chairman...
What are the landmarks of America? Guidebooks and histories point to battlefields and the birthplaces of celebrities. But plain citizens who know their own towns know landmarks with less elevated associations: skyscrapers, banks, the saloon where the town boss held office, the hotel where politicians made their deals, the street corner where some brilliant newcomer was shot-the miscellaneous, nondescript, undistinguished scenes of local history which old-timers recognize and visitors pass without seeing...