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...shares by the four-for-one reverse split in 1931. If the present reorganization plan goes through those 25 shares will become 12? shares. Those shares will, however, be worth about $16 each on the basis of last week's price for the old stock. For the oddest theme in the RKO story is that while its finances went from bad to worse, its position in the cinema industry showed astonishing improvement. In booming 1929, RKO was hardly more than a promotion. Today it is a first-flight producer, distributor and exhibitor and showed a profit...
...oddest deal of Britain's present effort to rearm herself as fast as possible, the Admiralty turned last week to a Sheffield steel firm, Thomas W. Ward Ltd., who recently bought the liner Majestic to break up for scrap. The Admiralty offered a handsome sum to buy the Majestic, seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built...
...five. One more will be chosen from the rest of the teams in the tournament. In some respects, this arrangement seemed eminently suitable. Due to the premium which the game places upon height and reach, basketball squads are often odd looking. By & large the McPherson Oilers are undoubtedly the oddest basketballers in the country...
...Oddest of all is the zebra-like okapi, a kind of short-necked giraffe so rare that it is usually caught only by native pygmies with pitfalls...
Television has had one of the oddest histories of any human enterprise. An established technological fact, mainly accomplished by U. S. research, it refuses in the U. S. to emerge from the laboratory. With either the Zworykin iconoscope (RCA-Victor) or the Farnsworth cold-cathode dissector tube "high-definition" images equal in clarity to home cinema and 6 by 8 inches in size can be transmitted. Blond, young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who rose from obscurity with the help of San Francisco bankers, has leased his system to England and Germany where broadcasting is in government hands. Currently television is regularly...