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...building, prime hope for renewed industrial upswing, continued to tread water as lumber output, already off 15% from last year, sagged 9% more. Automobile production was down from the previous week to 89,770 units, compared with 84,780 for the same week last year. Makers were notably laggard about buying materials, and the New York Herald Tribune predicted a downtrend in the next few weeks. Electric power production fell but was still 4% above last year. Rug sales are a good prosperity gauge because rugs lie as close as any luxury product to the hard floor of necessities. Last...
Fetching girls in bathing suits and the latest forms of night gowns paraded last night upon the staid platforms of Emerson D more accustomed to the stately tread of philosophy professors. (If we'd only known about it before it happened...
...love affair between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Countess Walewska of Poland. The notion was in the Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe, with the detailed perfection of one of Meissonier's Napoleonic battle-scenes. Aside from being a little dull, the picture has only...
...practical use gone with the incoming of modern machinery, a Tread Mill, once the most efficient means of churning butter and grinding corn, is now being used in the Fatigue Laboratory of the Business School in line with their research on physical exertion...
...students must cut corners and tread on the grass, the Maintenance Department will put in a walk for them. During the past week workers have been putting in an asphalt path to run from Lehman Hall, under the "spreading beech tree," to intersect the walk entering the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue...