Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smooth the path to the Dean's office, workmen will be pounding away at the steps of University Hall with bush hammers for the next few days. The surface of the slippery steps, which has been the cause of a flying tumble for many is being chopped into little ridges...
Worn smooth by passing feet since the building was erected in 1811, the steps became dangerous when covered with ice last year. Maintenance officials decided to refurbish the stairs when one of the professors slipped on the path to knowledge...
Special effect Specialist James Basevi (San Francisco) learned from hurricane survivors that hurricane sounds vary according to the shape and solidity of objects in the path of the wind. Scale models of buildings and trees were placed in a governed wind stream, and the differing effects recorded. Then Goldwyn engineers stepped up the recording pitch by the same ratio that existed between the scale models and the actual set, got the authentic sound of wind velocities as high as 250 m.p.h...
...Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission emphasized the orthodox New Deal point of view that business regulation is inevitable, the assembled bankers unanimously agreed with President Hall when he accused the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains tax of being the major hurdles in the path of future financing volume. Said he: "Something could be done by Congress about these two unsound methods of taxation which in effect offer immediate cash prizes for the conduct of one's business and personal affairs in a manner which otherwise would be contrary to all rules of prudence...
STARTLED at a late hour last Thursday night by a dark-eyed woman in black gliding mysteriously across his path in the Yard, a Yard cop feared for the sanctity of the Freshman dormitories and stirred up quite a wake in pursuit...