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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YEAR: WITHOUT A DOUBT CONGRATULATIONS FOR CUTTING HIM DOWN TO HIS SIZE ON COVER...
This area is about the size of Michigan, has a comfortable climate, yet has a population of less than 100,000. It is generally considered an arid country, yet our own government reports at least 5,000,000 acres of excellent farming land, with more available after suitable irrigation. There is excellent commercial fishing and some mining there also...
...London, managers of a new newsreel theatre announced an innovation: installation of 16 mm. (half-size) film-projection machines to show amateurs' scoops of news events. In Manhattan, the Newsreel Theatres Inc. announced plans for regular showings of amateur and professional 16 mm. news shorts at Rockefeller Center's new newsreel theatre...
Among this gang Mark Cullen was handicapped by his size and social position. He was a skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...
Meanwhile in Italy a studied unofficial campaign against France continued. The controlled press fumed against "French provocations" and in every Italian city of any size "spontaneous" delegations of school children, excused from classes, were sent tramping through the streets to shout "Down with France! Tunisia, Corsica to Italy!" Some 1,000 Nazi Strength Through Joy visitors in Naples enlisted for one of these parades to show the "solidarity"' of the Axis...