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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other picture, "The Million Dollar Ransom" was written by Damon Runyon for those who like their underworld straight. A benevolent beer-baron gives his life for his daughter and a millionaire kid. The moustached heavies are as sinister as you could ask and if you have no violent objection to Andy Devine's whining, and if you can endure underworld and Damon slang you will find the picture passable but unsafe...
...Edward Bellamy, a 38-year-old New England journalist, published a book called Looking Backward. More than a million copies of it were sold. It stirred the U. S. and Europe. It was the story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry...
France. As to the flight of capital from France provoked by the fall of Premier Doumergue's "Truce Cabinet," the Bank of France was seen last week to have lost gold worth 360 million francs, or less than one-half per cent of its reserves of over 82 billions...
...through college, it has become a mater of course to assist them with scholarships, loans, an employment, a policy which the public approves with democratic enthusiasm. So keen is this fetish for higher education for all at any cost, that even the government offers indigent scholars approximately a million and a half dollars monthly...
...probably by the gravitational yank of a passing star, is commonly estimated at 2,000,000,000 years ago. Much of this time was spent cooling, shrinking, solidifying: more than half of it passed before evidence of the first microscopic life was left in the rocks. Five hundred million years ago sponges, jellyfish and worms appeared; fishes 400,000,000 years ago; giant reptiles 150,000,000 years ago. Well within the last 100,000,000 years birds and mammals appeared, and within the last million, man. The dates. Sir James admits, are conjectural but the sequence...