Word: rathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Phelps Dodge is already producing 100 tons a month. American Metal expects to follow it into production. Both companies deliberately put themselves under a handicap by using low-grade Bolivian ore rather than good Malayan ore, which may be cut off by the tin trust. This increases smelting costs so much that the U. S. State Department, which loves to promote trade with Latin America, has never helped it, believing it would be uneconomic...
...marked the peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to thousands of readers. Craftwork rather than Art, they fall into several time-smoothed categories...
...inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...
...years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
...University lecturer who "may deliver occasional lectures" is a rather extraordinary individual. When that lecturer is a director of the British Broadcasting Corporation--an integral part of the wartime "Office of Information"--and has been given a Harvard title "under a special grant", there are grounds for healthy scepticism...