Word: scales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued the practice on a far larger scale. By controlling the fighter, promoting the fight and speculating in his own tickets at his Broadway ticket agency, Jacobs has now perfected a unique system for profiting in the fight business...
...keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well organized on a citywide scale, began firing from the rooftops, hurling hand grenades. In the streets some Chinese soldiers attacked the Japanese. Others seized bargeloads of Japanese beer, burst into the offices of the Dairen Steamship Co. and stayed through the night, nonchalantly bibbing. Japanese aircraft did not go up until dawn but when they...
...Haiti has a big coffee crop this year, and is producing bananas on an increasing scale," Minister Gordon told ship-news reporters this week. "She will ship her usual crop of a million stems of bananas to the United States this year and she will probably triple or quadruple that figure in a very few years. The Haitians have an extremely friendly feeling for us-they consider the United States their best friend...
...tried & true ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John...
...significant little Recovery fact. In June the total volume of corporate financing in the U. S. was divided between 1) refunding: $149,000,000 and 2) fresh capital: $269,000,000. U. S. Business had asked for more new money than refunding money. Only in isolated instances since large-scale corporate financing was resumed early in 1935 has this happened. In each of the five preceding months refunding ran ahead of new capital, leaving figures for the first half of 1937 in the same relationship ($932,000,000 of refunding, $795,000,000 of new capital). This time it looked...