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...took another splinter from the pile of odds and cuds and sat down again. There was no hurry. It would take them a quarter of an hour yet to get the cradle cleared. He was excited--yes, there was no denying that. Launching, like birth, is a supreme moment...
...order to put this over we will need the cooperation of CRIMSON and every other patriotic publication in the beloved land," writes Laemmle in a letter signed "Patriotically Yours." It is rumored that the recent popularity of French films is the Ethiopian in the Universal wood pile...
...into the first two years much of the material traditionally studied over the whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean Landis, are to be congratulated for resolutely resisting the temptation to initiate a four year course. Such a change would probably have enabled the faculty haphazardly to pile more work on the student rather than spurring professors to make better use of the student's time by more careful organization of courses...
Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco sits on top of a great banking pile. His Bank of America has 492 branches in California. Mr. Giannini also controls some 60 other banks and branches in other Western States. His Transamerica Corp., bank holding company now being renovated as an investment trust, controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles. In June 1936 at a court receiver's sale Occidental bought Federal Reserve Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City and last year acquired Guaranty Life Insurance Co. of Davenport, Iowa. Last month Occidental started negotiating with Sears, Roebuck...
...make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week's slim demand for steel, the mill operated smoothly with scarcely...