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...Lieut. Colonel Somervell told Florida what was going to happen than northern Florida began to rejoice and southern Florida to complain. Tampa growled because it feared it would lose its pre-eminence as Florida's west coast port, but Tampa's growls were hardly heard in the louder protests of fruit and vegetable growers south of the canal route...
More serious was the effect on International's financial position. At the end of 1931, bank loans amounted to $36,000,000 and Chase National Bank began to have a louder voice in the management. But the conspicuous fact about International is that it did not go into receivership or a 77-6 reorganization during a period when nearly every other big newsprint company in North America did. By the end of 1934, President Graustein had cut bank loans to $15,000,000, though utility profits continued to drop and newsprint was, and still is, selling near its Depression...
...score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make their pianissimos more consistently haunting. But few have been known to give so much substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many moods Schnabel projects offer eloquent proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance...
Amid a chorus of "hear, hear!" the exalted Economist of St. James's strongly advised promoters of travel in Britain to avail themselves of latest advertising methods, declared that the Empire must "raise its voice louder & louder." With a likable grin he raised his own voice louder & louder as he recited this keynote jingle...
...Even louder was the fanfare when the Soviet Government, announcing that it had "decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend...