Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kick. In early 1937, security prices reached 194 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages, climax of a two-year bull market, then collapsed with a world-wide break in commodity prices. By July, prices once more had begun a slow rise, although volume of trading was unbelievably thin. It was actually the beginning of Depression II, but almost to a man the brokerage community believed what Charles Gay put into his Exchange report-that too strict regulation by SEC was to blame. Wrote President Gay in his usual mild way: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what...
...young Queen Victoria, having ruled England for a year, stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with a proclamation. "Because the slaves of Jamaica are impatient for freedom," she read in a thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...
Lensman Valentine's invention has not been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This is inserted behind the camera's lens, works something like the binocular vision of human eyes. The illusion of roundness goes onto the film so that no special projector equipment is necessary and spectators do not have to wear stereoscopic glasses...
While Howard Hughes's great ship was being tuned and stocked at Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles...