Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March King's Royalties...
Nevertheless Ken, appearing biweekly, maintained a nine-month circulation average of some 250,000, but failed to attract any substantial amount of advertising. Then subscriptions began to fall off. Last March, hoping to meet its total monthly circulation guarantees to advertisers, it began to publish four issues a month instead of two. In June Ken tried again to bolster circulation by cutting its price from 25? to 10? a copy. Last week Messrs. Smart and Gingrich announced Ken's end with the issue of August 3. Editor Gingrich wrote to subscribers: "Rather than to employ inflationary methods, the publishers...
...desert in California, is a monument to U. S. chemical progress. In 1926 American Potash and Chemical, taking over a property three times bankrupt since 1896, began to research the problem of deriving potash commercially from its abundant borax properties. Directed by famed Chemist Dr. John Edgar Teeple (died: March 23, 1931), it perfected methods for producing potash-two tons of potash for each ton of borax...
When fun-loving, beer-bibbing, golf-playing Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 24, flunked out of Princeton (TIME, March 6), he expected to get what-for from his father, former Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The family's "face" was saved when Butch was appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tung-wen College in Shanghai's French Concession. Last week, with flying colors, Butch passed an examination given by a conscription board and was admitted to the Japanese army...
Promptly after his election last March Pope Pius XII tossed a lifeline to a sinking friend, once-honored General Umberto Nobile. Mussolini had busted Airman Nobile out of the service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...