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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge: "If, by firing a round, you can save lives and a ship, you cannot give the order to fire...
...despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...
Thus Philadelphia's transit system finally emerged from behind the eight ball. The reorganization will save $5,800,000 in fixed charges each year-enough to boost 1935's $6,139,654 loss toward a 1940 profit. It will also free enough cash to get the company started on a 10-year, $22,000,000 modernization program to replace its lumbering trolley cars and sway-backed busses...
...these things showed a remarkable restraint on the part of U. S. speculators (save for the "little fellows" whose odd lot purchases have exceeded their sales for the past month). U. S. business still waited to see whether consumption would catch up with increased production, whether real war orders would come to keep U. S. factories busy before another inventory recession slowed them down...
...highlight of the game was Joe Phelan's thrilling catch of a Yale penalty kick in the fourth quarter. It was this save more than anything else that inspired the Yardlings to stop those last minute Blue drives at any cost...