Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped for sound cinema, partly because of Republican opposition. Nevertheless the film the President saw went to Congress as an official Federal document, is the first motion picture ever placed in Congressional archives. By last week this film, called The Plow That Broke the Plains, was making exciting news in & out of the cinema industry...
What made The Plow That Broke the Plains news last week, a year after it was begun and weeks after it was completed, was that the Federal Government could find no satisfactory way to distribute it to the country. According to Director Lorentz, Hollywood had been suspiciously noncooperative from the start. Most cinema producers frankly hate the New Deal and are therefore in no mood to handle the distribution of a New Deal film at any price, even if it is as effective and exciting as The Plow That Broke the Plains. Their ostensible reason for keeping this "propaganda" film...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...This news was wirelessed from Camp No. 3 to Calcutta and to the world by Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the fifth British mountain-climbing assault in 15 years on Mt. Everest. It had taken the party more than three months to get from London to their present height. Mountaineers, aware that 14 men have so far lost their lives trying to scale Everest, were of the gloomy opinion that the worst was yet to come...
...downtown districts last week the following was news...