Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrive from Canada last week was another gentleman who has been around: potent, bushy-browed Arthur Blaikie Purvis. Head of the U. S. wing of the British purchasing commission he, like his French confrere, is returning to an old job. In 1914 he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U. S. His peacetime job is president of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (makers of explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals) which means he knows the chemical industry like a book...
Mack Trucks, Inc. (first in sales of heavy duty trucks): the new $1,145 Mack "Retailer," snoutless, shaped like a loaf of bread, 1½-ton pay load, for door-to-door work. The Mack line has 24 standard models at prices from $675 for 1-ton chassis to some $18,000 for 60-ton; others to order. Mack's boast: 72.9% of Mack trucks sold since 1929 are still in service...
Last fortnight the British Lion, which since World War II began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon...
...sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...
...minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal firing gets monotonous as the years roll...