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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparently well-supported numor that a union between Rumania and Hungary is considerably more than a remote possibility raises issues of paramount interest to students of international politics everywhere. The union of two states, one with a population of two states, one with a population of about sixteen million and the other nine million, cannot but be regarded with concern by all those nations who regard the balance of power in Europe as assured by the present arrangement. The proposed "anschluss" between Germany and Austria, which has been talked of at irregular intervals since the war, and which reached...
...contributing to Mr. Catchings' reputation as a brilliant and rising man. Trading Corp. stock, issued in December 1928 at 104, opened at 109, shortly split two for one, and in August 1929 was selling at 116. Shenandoah was launched in July 1929 by the sale of one million shares of common priced at 17 which soon sold up to 42, and one million shares of preferred at 50 which sold up to 60. The third member of the family?Blue Ridge?had its official birthday on Oct. 23, 1929, so that its most prosperous period was prenatal, the shares being...
Legitimate. With strings and chains of theatres to fill, Warner Brothers are ''feeling their way" into the legitimate field. During the past winter they produced Fifty Million Frenchmen and Top Speed. Said President Harry: "When we get more familiar with this phase of the amusement business, we will branch...
Musical?FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), SONS O' GUNS (TIME...
...bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into his production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt for which he paid his flyers. He drives a motor car fast but keeps paint on his mudguards. He is fond of golf...