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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion for Monday holidays (signed Geare, TIME, June 26), why not ask the National Safety Congress to estimate the number of increased accidental fatalities due to the long weekends...
...hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared parsons present; at the way everyone takes time out, even during the most crucial moments of play, to get a dish...
...half months, attendance totaled 13,500,000, about half the number Whalen figured. Big for world's fairs, it wasn't big enough for the biggest. Into executive session went major industrial exhibitors (investment: $35,000,000) and voted to ask the Fair to cut the gate to 50?. Concessionaires, whose girl shows have failed to turn the trick at the tills, went further. Their demand: a 25? admission fee at night...
...years competitive bidding by underwriters has been mandatory under ICC regulations for new issues of railroad equipment trust securities. For many more years than that it has been routine in municipal financing. Meanwhile, a growing number of private corporations have cut ties with their traditional banking houses and put new issues on the block, or placed them privately, often getting better prices for their securities...
...recognizable portrait of Sonja Henie's past, Second Fiddle raises several interesting questions about her future. It is the first picture in which her skating is incidental to the plot. The skating sequences show her informally on the schoolhouse rink, formally in an elaborate production number that takes place in her daydreams while she is lounging by a California swimming pool. For, as Ginger Rogers yearns to do, and occasionally does, pictures without her dancing shoes, Sonja Henie's ambition is to do one without her skates. Judging from the acting Trudi Hovland does before her glass with...