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Commerce's Chapin: "The trend of industrial production, prices, employment, pay rolls, merchandise distribution, foreign trade, and constructor was downward throughout the year Output was the smallest for any fiscal post-War period. . . . Foreign trade declined in value to the lowest level since pre-War years...
...endless series of Five-Year Plans, stretching off into remotest future. Jan. 1, 1933 is the date set for completion of the Five-Year Plan about which everyone knows. Generally speaking it has raised Soviet production above the pre-Plan level, which level was from 4% to 37% higher than the pre-War level and was far above the pit of stagnation in Russia's famine year. The Plan has marked a tremendous stride toward industrializing Russia and toward proletarianizing Russians, but the Plan has fallen and is falling short of many of its goals...
...being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left me speechless!" To the "Early Birds," as the pre-War airmen formally call themselves, Lieut. Settle brought news of one of their own. Just before his steamer reached Manhattan he had seen a radio despatch from Paris relating that Clifford Burke Harmon had offered to renew the Bennett Trophy for international ballooning which the U. S. had just...
...Levanthal, producers). Rodin, for whom he modeled, never got Lou Tellegen into such extraordinary poses as those he strikes for himself on the stage. His latest part, created in 1915 by another famed matinee idol, Leo Ditrichstein, is the sort that Actor Tellegen, self-confessedly a mighty pre-War wooer, must adore. Action of this old pinchbeck piece takes place in an operatic troupe. The leading member of the company (Mr. Tellegen) falls in love with a young prima donna who has already pledged herself to his understudy. It takes the understudy's mother, a former friend...
...pre-War Potsdam the state school for officers' daughters receives sensitive, 14-year-old Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele). The principal (Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers...