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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next expedition was led by Hugh Ruttledge in 1933. It set up a camp higher than any previous climbers had done, fought valiantly against gales, blizzards and avalanches, turned back short of the Norton-Somervell mark. F. S. Smythe, who had conquered 25,447-ft. Mt. Kamet two years before, reached...
KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...
...London, when drought shrank the Thames to a narrow stream, Lady Plimsoll painted a thin green line around the inside of her bathtub, six inches above the bottom. Like the original "Plimsoll line" which her late great father-in-law Samuel Plimsoll devised to mark the depth below which a ship must not be loaded, Lady Plimsoll's line decreed high water mark in her bathtub. By last week all over England, patriots were summoning painters to draw Plimsoll lines on their tubs...
...excitement was a tall, husky Irishman named Joseph I. Breen. Mr. Breen, onetime Associated Pressman, was about to become the cinema's chief censor. His job will be to read scripts before production, to send assistants to supervise production of dubious sequences, to preview finished films and mark those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare for U. S. cinemaddicts. Pictures too dirty to pass Censor Breen will be subjected to scrutiny, not as heretofore by a friendly committee of three producers, but by a special convention of the directors of the Motion Picture...
...year Treasury notes could not get a yield over 3/100 of 1%. For better profits banks and other customary short-term investors turned to long-term Government bonds. Prices of U. S. bonds had climbed gradually for months. Last week saw the movement go to a new high mark...