Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the" mass of Hollywood gossip which preceded the deal, observers were able to get an accurate idea of how it was put through. For the past two years, Universal has been short of cash. Last November, in order to get money to finish its two biggest current features, Slitter's Gold and Show Boat, Laemmle borrowed $750,000 from Standard Capital Co. controlled by Cowdin, his friend & partner, George Newell Armsby, and Broker Lawrence W. Fox Jr. In return, Laemmle gave Standard Capital an option on his stock until Feb. 1. The option was extended six weeks. Last...
...Washington lately. New Deal economists have scratched their heads over the Rust picker, pondered the plight of the great mass of black humanity in the South which makes a living picking cotton. They were encouraged to hear that, far from being rapacious moneygetters, the Brothers Rust, professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left...
When Father Thomay arrived in Chicago last summer, his parishioners took turns hoarding him, gathered for Sunday worship in a North Side parochial school. Currently the plumpish, bespectacled priest lives at a Catholic hospital, celebrates mass in its chapel, depends for clothing and pocket money on the $2 or $3 his Chaldeans give in weekly collections. Not at all daunted, Father Thomay recently took an option on a site for a church, was busy last week with plans for a Byzantine structure to be called St. Ephrem's. Toward its cost, a series of lectures by Father Thomay...
...General Electric, Westinghouse spraddles the entire field of electrical equipment. At its tremendous East Pittsburgh works it can make anything from waterwheel generators for Boulder Dam to complete power and control apparatus for steel rolling mills. At Derry, Pa. and Emeryville, Calif, it fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes in X-ray equipment, a Cleveland...