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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to the much-postponed Paris Exposition of last year, the Glasgow fair set a record by being 98% ready on opening day. By week's end well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further British Empire trade relations, the exhibition is made up of pavilions representing the Home Country, the Dominions, various Crown colonies and two special halls showing off Scotland to the empire...
Authors Bromley & Britten introduce their book with a promising question: "Joe and Jane petting on the back seat of an automobile are unimportant. Five million boys and girls petting on public highways have national significance." Their banal conclusion: "Today's young people are groping for a philosophy of living that will serve them in a changing world. They lack the measuring-rod of experience, but as a generation they are forthright, honest and courageous." Readers will want better evidence than is provided in Youth and Sex that these adjectives are appropriate for either the generation or Authors Bromley & Britten...
When they read 400 Million Customers, Carl Crow's engaging best-seller about life among Chinese businessmen, skeptics may have suspected that his Chinese sympathies had been inspired by his profitable Shanghai advertising business. When they learned that he had long been a Confucian, even skeptics had to admit it looked as though he had written from a well-informed heart...
...years, metropolitan readers of New York's Times and Herald Tribune have paid 2? for these big budgets of morning news. Those 2? barely paid the cost of the blank newsprint for each paper. Beginning this week, half a million New Yorkers had to change their habits, fork out 3? for the Times or the Tribune...
...Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime it." So he primed it for seven years. When it still did not work, he said, "I will not let my people down; I will prime for 70 times 7 years...