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College Holiday (Paramount) is one of those enormous, uninspired amalgamations of specialty numbers which Paramount issues periodically in the hope that sheer quantity will assure every cinemaddict of finding at least one item to his special taste. Strung out along a flimsy plot-about an eccentric dowager's scheme of turning her hotel into the scene of a eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned...
...some early, secret date, with 152 soldiers aboard and thousands more strung along the route, the first of some 50 armored special trains will begin moving 192,000,000 oz. of government gold worth $6,000,000,000 from New York, Philadelphia and other vaults to the great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. Ordinary railroad charge for such a haul would be some $200,000. Last week it was revealed that the Treasury would take advantage of government mail contracts, send its gold by registered parcel post. At the standard rate of 10? per oz., the postage bill...
...great Skoda works. Not only was His Majesty feted discreetly by "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, but the Archbishop of Prague permitted his flock to eat meat that Friday with abandon, and the electric works furnished current at reduced rates to citizens who strung up lights on their houses in honor of Carol...
...note was a picture of Billy and his one-time owner, Marian Leaders, 4, of Mineola, Iowa, who had raised him on a bottle. An Armour employe promised that Billy would "never know a moment of pain." In the slaughterhouse, Billy, like hundreds of others of his kind, was strung up by his heels on a moving chain. A muscular butcher seized his head, twisted it to one side, snapped. On rolled the chain, carrying broken-necked, painless Billy out to be carved into anonymous chops and roasts...
...next few years, no one who knows will tell. Presumably the figure was big enough to bother even optimistic Mr. Meehan. His firm did some heroic retrenching in the way of lopping off branch offices, including those at sea on crack transatlantic liners. But reports that the high-strung, red-haired onetime theatre ticket agent had lost his last shirt were exaggerated. Year ago Broker Meehan presented his son on his 21st birthday with a $130,000 seat on the New York Stock Exchange...