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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week weather-frightened Hollywood, eyes cocked on horizontal thunderheads, unfurled a million-dollar umbrella. Theatre attendance had been falling off; reports had come from Manhattan that Marie Antoinette, which cost MGM $2,500,000, was actually being hissed; exhibitors had called some of the studios' most valuable properties "poison at the box office"; in Washington the ground was being leveled for Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the major Hollywood studios. Hollywood's answer to all this was characteristic...
...week President Léon Cortés Castro approved a plan to dig up the necessary payment-a Government bond issue mortgaging the firm's $3,000,000 power plant. The sirens which acclaimed future Government control of a U. S. public utility were premature, however. Three million dollars would be a staggering amount for agricultural Costa Rica's 591,000 inhabitants to kick in for such a bond issue at home. Abroad, the Republic has already piled up external debts of some $19,000,000, on which it has recently been unable to make payments...
Costing nearly a million dollars, the building is strictly classical in style, rectangular in shape, with Ionian pilasters, on the fads. The foundations extend 22 feet below the surface in order to accommodate two floors of book-stacks...
Best-sellers of them all have been Freckles, which since publication in 1904 has sold over 2,000,000 copies, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), with total all-time sales of 1,500,000 copies. At least five others have sold over a million: Pollyanna, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Beautiful Joe, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Huckleberry Finn...
...playground is within half a mile of the child's house, he will play in the streets. To U. S. children. WPA has brought thousands of new playgrounds in the last three years. Great Britain will try another way. Announced last week was the organization of the Five Million Club, chairmaned by Rugby School's headmaster P. H. B. Lyon. It urged school children and adults to become members at a shilling a year, promised that each sixpence would buy a square foot of playground. The club has already signed up 20,000 members. As it reduces...