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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released to first-run houses all over the U. S. fortnight ago, Vol. 4 No. 2 had been doing a big business for two weeks, but last week it made news ot a different sort in New York City. New York is currently in the throes of a mayoral election campaign in which photogenic Mr. LaGuardia is being opposed by Mr. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, who is the Democratic candidate. Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York...
Because of general clamor aroused by the picture, it appeared for a time that only the M. 0. T.'s principal second-run New York house, the Embassy News-Reel Theatre, would exhibit the LaGuardia biography before November 2, date of the election. But by week's end, as a result of calls for the picture from their patrons, it appeared that some 50-odd circuit and third-run theatres will be showing the picture in New York during the week preceding the election. It seemed that in marching on, TIME had inadvertently stepped on the Tammany tiger...
Most significant news of the meeting was the Diesel engine. Though Diesels were patented by Germany's Dr. Rudolf Diesel in 1892 only about 40 have been installed, in U. S, busses and those for scarcely more than a year. Because Diesel engines burn fuel oil instead of gasoline, because the oil is ignited not by electric sparks but by high compression (around 500 Ib. per sq. in.) which raises the temperature of air in the cylinder to about 1,000° F., they are: 1) cheap to operate. 2) heavy in order to withstand high pressure, 3) expensive...
Other recent news of archeology and paleontology...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...