Word: stills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famine of steel scrap, cleared out the junk yards, sent the price of scrap skyrocketing to $22.50 a ton, but capacity production yields a good deal of new scrap, and the mills have already bought sizable supplies. By last week, scrap had not become too plentiful, but mills still in the market were picking it up for as little...
British papers, still sold in France, are avidly read for news suppressed by French censors. The London Times and Daily Telegraph run to 16 pages, censored before they are set up in type, without those mysterious omissions that irritate readers of the French press. A typical French daily has only four pages and contains virtually no news except Army communiques. To fill out the sparse fare supplied by the Ministry of Information, editors translate dispatches from British papers...
...publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...
...Circus is funny, should have been funnier. But cinemarxists, as they rest up from more laughs than the Marx Brothers have given them in many a long picture, may agree that the Marxes are still U. S. comedy trio No. 1, even if, as Namesake Karl Marx said of John Stuart Mill, their "eminence is due to the flatness of the surrounding country...
...reporter. Before he finished The Prairie Years, which carried the biography to 1861, he had meditated on the basic Lincoln material, had achieved a clear, homely, sometimes lovely style. The greater demands of the Civil War material in range and stamina and subtlety unquestionably deepened and instructed him still further...