Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first picture since Queen Christina, Greta Garbo gives a triumphant performance. As beautiful as ever but less numb than usual, she achieves the difficult feat of making Katrin seem more a human being than a fictionized heroine. Richard Boleslavski's direction is slow but sure; the picture gathers power steadily toward the finish. Its only thoroughly weak spot is a Chinese festival staged by Chester Hale to lend "production value"-a sequence which looks as if it had just finished an engagement at the Winter Garden. Good shot: Greta Garbo at dinner wondering how much her husband knows...
...understand what he had promised, thought of "un-employment insurance" as some sort of panacea that would lift the burden of depression unemployment from the U. S. The President showed by his speech that he knew better, knew that it would not solve the present relief problem, would be slow in getting started, that even after it got started it could not take the place of relief for unemployment caused by a major depression or by an industry losing its market...
...still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly. But they were slow, and because they were slow International Mercantile Marine sold them to the "knackers" last week for 4? on the dollar-$12,000,000 worth of steel & iron & wood for less than...
HOLC got off to a slow, clumsy start because President Roosevelt appointed a "lame duck" Congressman from South Carolina named William Francis Stevenson as its chairman. Democrat Stevenson apparently was more interested in giving his relatives and friends jobs in the new Government agency than he was in getting started with mortgage relief. Another cause of initial delay was that mortgage holders were reluctant to swap their liens for HOLC bonds because the bonds were guaranteed by the Government only as to interest. Therefore Congress at its last session guaranteed them as to principal as well. Chairman Stevenson was replaced...
Business was slow the last year of the Civil War but Truckson La France of Elmira, N. Y. had an idea. He put on his best bowler and went to call on the rich Diven family. "I've perfected a rotary fire engine," he announced. "I want money to make it with." With a snort Old Man Diven gave him the money. Inventor La France made his first fire engine in an old brick house, sold it to Elmira. It was enough to scare the horses, but it had two lines of hose and only one weakness. The cams...