Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...
...grey-haired, heavy-set man who looks like the composer he has become. Two years ago, Composer Feher got the notion of a cinema in which music would bear the burden of narration. With his voluptuous wife, Magda Sonja, and his chubby son, Hans, in the main roles, he wrote, composed, directed and cut The Robber Symphony. It won immediate success in Europe, was chosen one of the ten best pictures of the year in 1936 by the International Artistic Motion Picture Exhibition in Venice. Last week, chaperoned by the Feher family, it made...
Rebirth. When Business is bad, railroad business is worse. When Business improves, so does railroad business. The U. S. railroad business began to roll out of its rusty industrial siding two years ago. By the beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
...Union Pacific cracked out an order for 25 new locomotives. New York Central, headed for receivership in the depth of Depression, was about to cut its interest charges by refunding old bonds. And Pennsylvania announced that it would start immediately on electrification of 85 mi. of four-track main line west to Harrisburg, Pa. Various yard, branch and freight lines will be electrified at the same time, bringing the cost of the whole project to about $158,000,000 and completing the program launched in 1928 by the late William Wallace Atterbury...
Veteran playgoers were pleased to see amiable, appealing Grant Mitchell (Kempy, It Pays to Advertise), back from Hollywood after seven years, making the very most of the main role...