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...most people Fairchild still means a high-wing, cabin monoplane popular with sporting brokers and airport joyriders in the twilight of the 1920's. Depression hit the company as hard as it hit the rest of the industry, and in the last five years planes, on the average, have accounted for only one-fourth of Fairchild sales. The balance was derived from the aerial camera and survey divisions, in both of which fields Fairchild is an undisputed leader...
Closed last year Hemenway Gymnasium opens its doors again on Monday when the 5 o'clock whistle blows for the regular twilight calisthenics class...
Tucked away in the Public Utility Act of 1935, lacking even the dignity of a separate paragraph, was a Congressional command to the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate investment trusts. In the twilight of the 1920's, some $7,000,000,000 worth of investment trusts were floated, according to SEC figures. Their total assets were worth about $2,000,000,000 by the end of last year. It became SEC's job to find out where, how and why the rest disappeared. Last week after over a year of preliminary field work by a staff...
Mention of magazine articles on maternity stirred A. M. A. obstetricians to angry outbursts. Indignantly recalled was the fact that U. S. mothers first heard of twilight sleep through the enterprise of McClwe's Magazine in June 1914.* Now running in Ladies' Home Journal is a series of blatantly emotional articles called "Why Should Mothers Die?" by Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif. Cried Kansas City's Dr. Buford Garvin Hamilton last week: "American obstetrics seems to be becoming a competitive practice to please American women in accordance with what they read in lay magazines...
...Authors: Constance D. Leupp & Marguerite Tracy. Said Mrs. Constance D. Leupp Todd last week: "My own twilight-sleep son is now 20 and a dandy...