Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again they met the flood and carried us to firm ground." (Floods are the most frequent catastrophe in China, others scarcely less frequent being droughts and plagues...
Currently there are slightly less diphtheria, infantile paralysis, measles and typhoid in the U. S. than at this period last year, and slightly more meningitis, scarlet fever. Smallpox also has increased considerably in 1929. But very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...
Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel men, surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction...
Exploitation matter for the picture states that it was made at places in the desert where the temperature was "never less than 120°." It is too bad that this heat, or something, made Director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity. The characters are never properly identified; the flashbacks into their lives are jerky and incomplete. Best shot: the evangelist going crazy and running out into the desert...
...deal with a gentleman, stipulating that she is to run his home and live with him at a salary of $25,000 and all expenses paid. The reversal, created when her attitude toward the second party in this contract becomes sentimental, shows how eventually she shares the troubles of less reasonable women. Best shot: pretty Constance Bennett making terms...