Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There Director Chester Franklin. Producer John Considine Jr. and a crew of 40 worked almost two years, made 62 miles of film before they had the 7.500 feet they needed. Most outdoor pictures require a dozen or so different types of lenses. Photographer Chester Lyons used 47 in Sequoia. Pack trains carried film from location to a base camp daily whence it was shipped 300 miles to the studio laboratories to be developed. "Rushes"' returned to the location spot two days later. Though arduous, Sequoia was comparatively cheap to make since its principals, now on tour in cities where...
...decision would boost the Federal debt about $10,000,000,000, would wipe out the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, would have a highly deflationary effect upon their program, New Dealers began to figure what to do. They considered: 1) enlarging the Court so that the President could pack it with new members favorable to his cause; 2) declaring a moratorium until a Constitutional Amendment could be adopted forbidding the Court to declare Federal laws unconstitutional, declaring it retroactive; 3) paying in gold as demanded and establishing a 60% tax to get back the excess; 4) or simply letting...
...laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn their room on earth at any time in their lives. . . . For a President to admit, however, that such a thought had crossed his mind would be to arouse the phony fury of all the mammy singers in the country and bring down upon himself...
...Britain and France, but friction has been chiefly with France. Because other parts of the Dictator's speech breathed bombast, most commentators dismissed it as all bombast. In Paris clear-headed old Louis Barthou saw things differently. Secret pourparlers began. II Duce told nearly half a million Italians, pack-jamming Cathedral Square in Milan' that he was up to something (TIME, Oct. 15)-"Our relations with France have very greatly improved in recent times," he cried. "We hope soon to reach an accord which will be very fruitful." When hubbub greeted this announcement Mussolini said in a fatherly...
...Harlow was an assistant coach at Penn State during the years 1912-1921, when that institution was the leader of the pack in recruiting football players. He left Penn State to take a job at Colgate, where there has ever been as much "conniving, bidding, etc," according to all reports, as at any other college. Leaving Colgate he took up his duties as head coach and athletic director at Western Maryland. There, at a school which has a co-ed student body of 470 he was able to turn out a team which could defeat B. C., which in turn...