Word: rio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RIO GRANDE - Harvey Fergusson - Knopf ($3). Time moves fast in the U. S., but in the Southwest it goes slower than elsewhere. Of Spanish feudalism only a "wistful remnant" is left; of the two-gun bad men only legends remain. But both the land and its natives, says Native Son Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold...
Most noticeable current trend in the cinema is toward musicomedies. This type, instead of subsiding as most producers expected after the release of Forty-Second Street, has grown until 16 are now scheduled for next season. RKO will make six starting with Flying Down to Rio, in which Dolores del Rio will play opposite Fred Astaire...
Sixth Season- As she has done every year since 1928, the sturdy Graf Zeppelin cast off last week from Friedrichshafen with a load of passengers, headed over the Atlantic. She was bound via Spain for Rio de Janeiro, on a monthly schedule to be maintained until August when service may be stepped up to twice-a-month. Fares are down...
...secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets $100,000 and has an option on 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward stock at $11 (TIME, April 10), President Sewell Lee Avery was questioned by stockholders at their...
...there is usually a misty drizzle, no one carries an umbrella. "You will even be treated as a Chilean-supreme insult! -if you carry one." In Peru "there is no public opinion, no consideration whatever of the general good." Siegfried did not care much for Buenos Aires, but of Rio de Janeiro he says: "If there are seven wonders in the world, this city is one of them!" Politically and economically, he does not regard South America as grownup. "The trouble with the South Americans is that they see everything too big. These people, so charming and optimistic, launch...