Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deals. In London, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. announced the formation of Fairbanks International, with $2,500,000 from American, English and Swiss backers. The new company plans three pictures, to be released by United Artists in 1939: The Californian, which Raoul Walsh may direct; The Tenth Woman, hero Lord Byron, in Technicolor; a remake of The Three Musketeers, also in Technicolor. In Manhattan, Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it had taken over all U. S. distribution for London's Gaumont-British, which will shortly close its U. S. offices...
...horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold 44 copies of a book on salmon fishing for $250 each. Even Derrydale's tenth anniversary catalogue is published in a limited edition: 950 copies at $3.50 a copy. A student claims to have worked her way through Vassar speculating on the rise in Derrydale publications...
Those were romantic years. In Philadelphia a girl said: "Every girl should have one Clifford Odets in her life." In Springfield, Mass., there was a "horrible, exquisite" love affair "with something of the Sorrows of Werther about it." In Manhattan there was an unheated railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...
...precious books, dating back as far as the tenth century, were bought by Dr. Chin from private collectors who, fleeing Japanese bombs, saved these as their most valuable possessions. Japanese restrictions preventing Chinese citizens from bringing goods out of the country made it impossible for Dr. Chin himself to supervise the books' departure, that job being left to an American associate of his in the Far Eastern Department...
...Palestine is rich in many minerals, can grow almost any kind of fruit or vegetable, has sufficient water supply. Instead of being overpopulated, it is notoriously undermanned. If as dense as Massachusetts, it would have 5,270,000 instead of 1,300,000 inhabitants. It now supports only one-tenth of the population of Roman times...