Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grade of C at the end of the year is considered proof of a sufficient knowldege of English for a college student. Since there are no mid-year examinations, and the November "Hours" usually include a theme, the principal basis for the marks are written compositions. The main test, therefore, is ability to write good English, which would be fully proven by a mark of "B" at mid-years...
Some 50 miles northwest of Burbank the San Joaquin Valley is bitten off by the small Tehachapi Mountains, which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash...
...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...
According to figures released last week, gross box-office receipts for the cinema industry in 1936 were a billion dollars, $250,000,000 more than last year. Weekly theatre attendance was 81,000,000-compared to 71,000,000 in 1935, 54,000,000 in 1933. Main reasons for the industry's gain were undoubtedly increased prosperity and better pictures. A contributing reason was undoubtedly "Bank Night"-currently a weekly fiesta at 5,000 of the 15,000 active U. S. cinema theatres...
Balanced against an assertion that 75% of the 1,100 Widener guests were not acquainted with their hosts, the Record related how Mr. Gravell talked to each & every one of his employes at the main plant when he gave them checks to square their debts. All no American Chemical Paint Co. workers (76 at Ambler, 34 in other branch plants)-whether they had debts or not-shared in the bonus handout...