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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho. Near the confluence of the tiny Salmon Falls River and the Snake River, 10 to 15 million years ago, was a watering place where went teeming herds of Plesippus, an equine creature far up the scale from the little "Dawn horse". Last week the Smithsonian announced that 25 skulls of Plesippus stallions, mares, colts and fillies had lately been turned up there...
...Roosevelt suspended, pending further investigation, two clauses which seemed particularly galling to the industry. One clause declared against "excessive" salaries; the other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...
...Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there...
Sixth tallest measured peak in the world is 26,620-ft. Nanga-Parbat ("Mountain of Horror"), 900 mi. northwest of Everest.* A British army officer named A. F. Mummery tried to scale it in 1895. He and two Ghurka porters disappeared crossing a high pass. No one attacked Nanga-Parbat again for nearly 40 years...
...dollar volume of the Big Board. Foreign brokers are planning to garner a good slice of whatever trading is driven from Manhattan by Federal regulation. Toronto Stock Exchange tickers in Manhattan Board rooms are multiplying. A few Canadian brokers have even established Manhattan branches. Talk of any large-scale diversion to foreign exchanges is not taken very seriously, but as a defensive measure the Street last week quietly debated the possibilities of running Big Board pools from beyond U. S. frontiers. Few if any brokers can break even when a day's business averages 500 shares a member...