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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...yardstick for private power rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away to look into this and many another TVA question, the President sent to Congress a long-awaited report from TVA's financial committee on cost allocation. At last they show just where the notches on the Authority's yardstick had been...
Neatly produced by Hal B. Wallis, earnestly directed by Edmund Goulding, handsomely performed by its well-chosen cast, White Banners thus turns out to be a smooth, ennobling circus, which should surprise and gratify those who look for sermons in shows and books on double bills. Typical shots: Hannah smiling bravely when Sally breaks a plate; when Pete is impertinent; when Paul Ward has a tantrum...
News-vendors, who are constantly in contact with the public, must look respectable and belong to an honorable corporation. They will have to wear polished shoes and a brown blouse extending below their knees; and they must shave daily. The police will be empowered to take drastic action against defaulters...
Others pointed out that 2,000,000 U. S. citizens pay two cents or more a day to insure themselves against hospital bills; that 15,000,000 citizens who work for railroads, public utilities and industries are already accustomed to having company doctors look after their accidents and ills; that insurance company agents are itching to sell health insurance to the populace...