Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea originated in 1929 when T. A. T. used silent pictures on a few experimental runs, then dropped the scheme when passengers proved indifferent. But those were daylight runs...
...time since the Twenty-One Demands. Last year Japan delivered a quiet, crushing blow to Chinese industry by forcing Generalissimo Chiang to lower tariffs on leading Japanese exports to China and up tariffs on leading imports from the U. S., Britain and Russia (TIME. Aug. 20). So slick and silent was that double-edged trade victory that it made scarcely any news in the Occident. Say glum Shanghai tycoons: "To China the new tariffs are as disastrous as the loss of three provinces." Last week they shivered to think what Minister Ariyoshi and General Suzuki might be imposing upon Generalissimo...
...opposite of his predecessor in temperament, appearance and technique, Lorne Chabot is a bulky, silent, languid French Canadian. Reared in Montreal, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery at 16, fought at Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge. After the War he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished...
...melodramatic nature of the plot. It is unfortunate that melodrama should be carried over from plot to style and that much of the dialogue and some of the narrative of "Taps" should be so strongly suggestive of the worst manner of scenario writers for the early thrillers of the silent movies...
...will have electric starters. Smallest outboard in the show was a 24½-lb. Evinrude-Elto with 1½ h.p. ($55). Principal development in larger motors was V-drive construction, with motors mounted at the extreme stern to make more cabin or cockpit room. Interesting to many were three silent electric boats for anglers, 15-to-18 ft. long. Speed: 5-9 m. p. h. Price: $175-$750. One has a bow-rudder...