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...Steel production, surest measure of basic recovery, touched a six-year high at 72½% of rated capacity, although steel's best customer, automobile production, declined sharply while Ford plants temporarily ceased assembly operations...
Nearly 1,000 trusts, extant and defunct, will be examined before SEC sends its report to Congress next January with recommendations for regulatory legislation. In charge is Commissioner Robert E. Healy, the grey-haired Vermont Republican who conducted most of the six-year investigation of public utility holding companies for the Federal Trade Commission. His first lieutenant is Paul P. Gourrich, a demon statistician who used to work for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. If his German accent were not so pronounced, Paul Gourrich might have been Commissioner Healy's inquisitor. Asking the questions last week was David Schenker, a bright...
...Manhattan, William S. Hart, screen star of 150 silent "Westerns," won a five-year-old damage suit against United Artists, the firm which in 1925 signed six-year contract with Hart to make talking pictures. A jury awarded him $85,000, found that United Artists had made only one Hart film, distributed it to second-rate houses, conspired to keep him from making more. Said Cinemactor Hart, who had asked for $500,000: "What those picture people did to me took the best years of my life, but thank God I have won moral victory...
...little six-year old boy with list clenched crept stealthily along the Eliot House fence one afternoon last week. He paused in front of the Master's residence for a brief moment, and scanned the horizon up and down Memorial Drive. Then, after a cute pitcher's wind-up, wham! went a rock right through one of the Master's prize windows. First came the pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow...
...full depths reached by the stockmarket averages but also retarded their recovery. And the inescapable conclusion was that on their common stock holdings, investment trust managers as a whole would have done better to buy the list of shares in the Standard Statistics averages and take a six-year vacation...