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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many other stage plays converted to the screen, this production has a vigorous, staccato dialogue to atone for its lack of pictorial beauty. The smaller parts are on the whole excellently played. We like particularly Oscar Apfel as Editor Hinchcliffe. He regarded the words "scandal", "sex", and "sensational" with squeamishness; preferred saying "human interest...
...planned to take away from stockholders 75% of their shares, give back three-quarters of a share as a bonus with each $5 worth of debentures. The stockholder who subscribes to the offer will in effect get his stock back. The one who does not will have a 75% smaller interest in the company...
...inaugurating a smaller board, all of whose members are not deeply interested in athletics, but are also in intimate contact with university affairs, it is believed that the future development of Yale's athletic interests will be more in harmony with those of other institutions...
...tinentale de Boites Metalliques, acquired last year. In England, Continental has a minority interest in Metal Box Co., Ltd. Continental's bigger rival, American Can Co., has a substantial interest in British Can Co. Ltd., maker of 25% of the tin -cans in the British Isles. The smaller part of Continental's output (30%) is in "general line cans" used for drugs, oils, paints and tobacco. Greater part of American's .output (55%) is in "packers' cans" used for edibles...
Strongest of all unions are the "Big Four" Brotherhoods-Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen-with 17 smaller rail groups. Their membership blankets the U. S. and Canada. First move to reduce the Brotherhood pay scale came last month in Canada where Canadian National and Canadian Pacific began negotiating directly with their employes for a voluntary wage cut. Last week the poll of C. N. and C. P. workers still remained untabulated. Upon its result largely depended the attitude of Brotherhood men in the U. S. toward pay cuts...