Word: rating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bermudians were sad about the war, but they were sadder to lose their good, gold-laden friends, the American tourists. Instead of arriving at an average rate of 5,000 per month, tourists scurried away from the Isles of Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan...
...imposing array of writers and actors, and produced one of the best pictures of the year. The flamboyance of Laughton and the high-strung tension of Hitchcock direction complement each other perfectly. The result is high adventure worthy of Dumas combined with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress, it is hard to imagine her as a big-time all-around actress,--but then, you never can tell...
Another difficulty the British have had to overcome-they have done so with amazing rapidity-is their slow rate of plane production. It was in 1936 that Britain finally woke up to the appalling state of her Air Force. At the end of last year Britain was producing only about 200 planes a month, but by last week they had almost achieved a rate of 1,000 per month, bade fair to overtake the German rate soon...
...filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty's Office of Works to use the sacred space, announced a schedule of first-rate talent, invited the public to seven lunch-and-teatime concerts a week...
...lover of Heine, an inveterate parodist and would-be musician, Untermeyer contributed second rate verse and lofty reviews to The Masses, The Seven Arts and The Liberator, only one of the three to survive the War. As superintendent of a jewelry factory in Newark, N. J., Business man Untermeyer invited his 150 astonished employes to unionize, claims he established the first 44-hour week in the industry...