Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Tues. 4:40 p. m. CBS) addresses the Foreign Press Association by short wave from London...
Color Flight is a four-minute visual and musical experience that resembles a roller coaster ride through a kaleidoscope to the accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions...
...thank him, he had disappeared." The Ballards' prayer: "Let us have every good thing, including money." Backstage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while the Philharmonic's fiddles were a tuning, its doorman and its conductor, Londoners both, celebrated a common birthday. Augustus ("Gus") Wade, a short, military Britisher with grey handle bar mustaches, who for 45 years has been as much a part of Carnegie Hall as the plaster lyre that adorns its ceiling, was 83. John Barbirolli was 39. Together the birthday boys bent over a large white cake, huffed & puffed at their joint quota...
...sharp contrast to Marriner Eccles, the overwhelming majority of U. S. businessmen agree that if U. S. prosperity is forever going to depend on Government spending, the stretches of prosperity will be short, however sweet...
Meanwhile, the particular brand of spending which is on the way, with hearty approval on all sides, is rearmament. Last week Banking declared that it would be a "Business stimulant of first importance in the immediate future." Like all spending, the blessings of rearmament are short-lived. It helped England for a year but last week England's plight was reflected in the fact that the pound sterling was under such pressure that the price of gold in London went to the highest level in history ($34.70). There were persistent rumors that further devaluation of the pound...