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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 500 caverns and underground water courses, mostly in the Pyrenees where he was born. He has. in the words of a colleague, "made the subterranean Pyrenees his own, and this is a promising chapter in applied hydrogeology." In Ten Years Under the Earth, a book full of first-rate scientific adventure which has been saluted by the French Academy of Sciences, he relates, among many others, this plunge into the Earth's dark bowels...
...golfers receive no salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...
...with a Sunday edition. Immediately Tennessee Electric Power Co.* took most of its advertising from the rival afternoon News, vigorous advocate of a TVA-fed municipal power system, and became the No. i advertising customer of Mr. McDonald's Free Press. It paid the paper's highest rate, $1.26 an inch, though the News had charged it only...
...Latest circulation figures: News, 35,741; Free Press, 34,721.) To the Congressional committee investigating TVA last summer the Free Press general manager explained T.E.P. could have had a cheaper rate under contract, added: "We never offered them a contract." This later caused Committee Counsel Francis Biddle to bark: "Tennessee Electric has been subsidizing...
More popular in England than in the U. S., Hitchcock pictures like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...