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Dufaycolor is not the only film with the color screen applied directly on it. But because all color screens absorb some of the light they receive, all color films are "slower" than ordinary black-&-white film. Lumière film, the oldest, which is coated with fine starch grains, is 60 times slower. Agfa, which uses a solution of chemically discrete color elements, is 30 times slower. Not having geometrical screen patterns, these two films are susceptible to small inequalities of color distribution which may show up when a cinema projection is sufficiently magnified. Not only does Dufaycolor not suffer...
...Last week Columbia Broadcasting announced that there were nearly 2,500,000 more radio sets in the U. S. than anyone suspected, bringing total radio homes to 21,456,000. The CBS cstimate was derived from a Daniel Starch survey of 125,000 homes. Previous figures were based on the 1930 census which was taken at time when there was wild talk of a radio-set tax, particularly in the South where radio-ownership is supposed to have been been generally concealed...
...affairs, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wheeled into action the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, prime financial mystery of the New Deal. Operating through the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the Stabilization Fund waded into the market, bought French francs on a vast scale, took some of the starch out of the perky dollar...
...rebuked him for accepting "donations" from newshawks at the standard rate of $10 for a downstairs seat or $5 for an upstairs seat at the trial. Sheriff Curtiss righteously protested that the "donations" were to be used for "fixing up" the courthouse for the trial. The Governor took the starch out of this protest by revealing that New Jersey had already appropriated $15,000 to cover all trial expenses, would appropriate more if needed...
...Daniel Starch & Staff New York...