Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City in a light rain, westbound for Billings, both engines of their Lockheed Zephyr had, for some reason still unexplained, quit. Husky square-jawed Pilot Chamberlain, gallantly trying to get back to the field, went down in a gulch, 1,200 feet short. The ship, striking at fearful speed with a 25-mile wind on its tail, crashed into jagged pieces, burned to ghastly junk...
...reporting their remarkable but so far inexplicable treatment in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week, there may have been a direct relationship between ears and sex organs. Although the scientists cautiously refrained from stating that constitutional deafness is an endocrine disease, they did say that "sex hormone may still play a role in the physiology of hearing today...
...Great Man Votes he was given $200,000, John Barrymore and Peter Holden. A superproduction in comparison with Kanin's earlier efforts, it is still a quickie according to normal Hollywood standards. Director Kanin, in his accustomed style, makes capital of its entertainment assets far beyond its cost...
...trying to make Jesse James atmospherically authentic, Director Henry King spared no expense. When he learned that the courthouse in Liberty, Mo., real home of the James boys, had been torn down, he flew over the Ozarks looking for a village where an old courthouse was still standing. Spying one at Pineville, he built oldtime false fronts over its modern stores, covered its concrete streets with dirt, hired dozens of its citizens as extras...
Hormel & Co., still in the van of the parade, last week came out with something brand-new, a "joint earnings plan." During the current fiscal year (ending October 1939) the total of all profits and wages of Hormers Austin plant will be reckoned up. At year's end this theoretical kitty will go 80% to employes, 20% to stockholders. If the employes' 80% fails to cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four...