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...penal colony was established in 1852. Some commentators have pictured the colony as a happy, carefree settlement. The French Guiana climate is always humid, with the temperature ranging from 68 to 90 degrees, with frequent trade winds from both southeast and northeast. Undeniable fact, however, is the large number of deaths, which each year has generally equaled the number of importations, as well as the large number of men of broken health and spirits who escape...
...detachment of 2,500 Turkish troops was to enter the Sanjak by agreement with France. There they were to "help" an equal number of French troops to "maintain order" when the often postponed elections are finally held. The date is not set yet. According to Arab sympathizers, the reason the League of Nations Commission's elections were not held was that France had secretly promised Turkey that at least 22 of the Sanjak's 40 assembly seats would go to Turks. Since Turks number no more than 40% of the population, since many Sanjak Turks dislike Dictator Kamal...
...years ago Engineer Hogan and his partner, bespectacled General Manager Elliott Maxwell Sanger, decided to put their station on a commercial basis, invited a limited number of sponsors to advertise. Only products personally approved by Engineer Hogan himself are permitted the use of his air waves, and their announcements are held to a strict standard of dignity and terseness. Typical sponsors have included Random House, the Oxford University Press, the Theatre Guild. Martinson's Coffee, the American Tobacco Co. One of them, the Book-of-the-Month Club, apologizes for taking up the listeners' valuable time. Despite these...
This system of operatic production, known among operagoers as the ''star system," has its advantages. It simplifies and speeds up rehearsal, and allows the public to hear a great number and variety of fine singers. But it also has disadvantages. Under it, an operatic cast is seldom rehearsed as a unit. Result: Operatic acting and staging, as a rule, is slipshod, routine, uncoordinated...
Thus highlighted was the ironical fact that an action to avoid a Governmental reprimand for monopoly might increase monopoly. It has always been the steel industry's claim, seconded by cement and other heavy industries, that without price stabilization of some sort the inevitable result is a number of monopoly mills whose strategic position enables them to undersell and consequently force out of business their competitors...