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...that the company was not affected by the deflation of 1921, a managerial feat mentioned in many a text book. Studebaker engineers point with pride to the adoption of free-wheeling in 1930, the first convertible top (1924), full power mufflers (which increase horse-power), 90% elimination of motor roar by a carburetor silencer, ball-bearing spring shackles, hydrostatic gas gauges. Figure-wise Mr. Erskine last spring saw that the plants were overvalued, ordered a $16,000,000 writedown (TIME, April 4). Like many another western executive Russel Erskine is at his office before 8 a.m. But he often interrupts...
Pole Vault. Bill Miller of Stanford lay on his back in the sawdust pit, looking up at the bar, 14 ft., 3 in. over his head. The bar was jouncing and shaking but the huge, pleased roar of 85,000 spectators did not make it fall. Japan's little Shuhei Nishida, grinning broadly, helped Miller to his feet. Amazingly, Nishida had vaulted higher than Bill Graber or George Jefferson, two U. S. contestants who had been expected to fight it out with Miller for the Olympic championship. At 14:3, Nishida had tried three times and missed, then watched Miller...
...Roar of the Dragon (RKO) is a cinema story of what happens to Occidentals caught in China when good Chinese are away at the wars and the bandits whistle in the treetops. The chief bandit is Voronsky (C. Henry Gordon) whose whispered name is enough to send Chinese Paul Reveres scudding over the country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid...
...stunned with disappointment. A bewildered murmur that rose to a roar swept the crowd. Here & there were a few boos. Then suddenly, starting from nowhere, they began to sing "America" until the night sky seemed to tremble with their resolute voices. Later in small groups they drifted back to their crazy shacks and shelters on the mudflats...
...some future European war. Scientific murder is perfected now. Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce. Beneath this pall the long entrenched lines, locked together, writhe and push. Should the westerly line crack, the alien hordes will roar through, flood the lands beyond with death or with their super-mechanized civilization worse than death...