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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown itself most keenly cognizant of this amorphous duty to society: here, specifically, responsibility to scatter information and advice in the practical business world. To this end it has an established program, the principal instruments of which are the informal week-end discussion groups which have met during the past few years. To these industrial house-parties come the invited representatives of prominent firms, who meet together to confer on some large industrial problem. They listen to the views of Harvard professors and other business experts on the latest developments in commerce and production, hear the philosophies and arguments...
Other facts revealed by the Association: 1) Cases of syphilis discovered through various State examinations in the past year were divided equally between men and women; 2) many cases of gonorrhea were detected during the course of required physical examinations; 3) the number of marriages in New York and New Jersey declined sharply after the laws became effective last July. Since August, however, New York marriages have been increasing and marriages in Connecticut, first State to pass a test law, are as frequent as ever...
Motormaker Sloan said he expected consumer buying to be "substantially improved over that existing during the past few months.... To assist in carrying on its stabilization of employment program, the corporation will again build substantial inventories in excess of retail demand during the winter months. . . ." Not to be outdone, President K. T. Keller of Chrysler Corp. announced the rehiring of 34,000 men since August 1, the restoration of March salary cuts. Said he: "Current business is brisk. . . . Stocks of cars in dealers' hands are 31,500 today, as against 98,000 at this time a year...
German imports from the Balkans increased from 198,000,000 marks in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, to 574,000,000 marks in 1937. Simultaneously Britain and the U. S. began buying less & less from the Balkans, which during the past five years have reluctantly sold more & more to the Nazis-mostly on credit...
Author Kantor's story is teasing and ingenious rather than effective. As in his Civil War novels (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware, etc.), MacKinlay Kantor has a graphic sense of the U. S. past, writes good descriptive narrative, and creates an atmosphere of tension. But in The Noise of Their Wings he goes lame shuttling between the past and present, and most of his vitality appears to have been exhausted in devising a modern plot. The characters in The Noise of Their Wings resemble real people about as closely as the Smithsonian's well-stuffed passenger pigeon resembles...