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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trade Winds (Walter Wanger-United Artists). On Nov. 24, 1935, Director Tay Garnett sailed from Los Angeles in the yacht Athene. With him he took a camera crew, a complete film laboratory. His object: a 50,000-mile round-the-world cruise to gather material for his next picture. Last week, when the result of his expedition was released as Trade Winds, audiences expected that, as a travelogue, it might be a pleasant surprise...
When Gregg took charge of the Bureau in 1934, it was struggling along on $3,700,000 a year, was generally considered out of date. Today the Bureau is getting ahead. Air-mass analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines...
President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois took the position that he was interested in making bottles and wished the whole patent muddle could be avoided. "A patent," said he, "is not a grant of right to use the thing, it is only a grant to exclude other people from using the same thing." Pressed by Senator William E. Borah to admit that Hartford-Empire in effect fixed milk bottle prices, Mr. Levis only admitted that certain companies, including his own, "led" prices...
...Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career, result of an SEC crackdown charging Giannini's Transamerica Corp. with a false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment house which "A. P." unloaded in accord with the banking law divorcing underwriting from deposit banking. Such deals have caused rumor that Bancamerica...
...bribing customs weighers to mark down the weights of his cheese invoices and was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year in Elmira Reformatory. The "Cheese Case" made a small flurry in the newspapers the same year that Frank Donald Coster (according to Who's Who) took his Ph.D. at Heidelberg...