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...Upshot of the reorganization is two new companies: Postal Telegraph, Inc., which gets the land lines, and American Cable & Radio Corp., a holding company, which gets the old radio and cable lines (induding I. T. & T.'s South American radio properties). Two-thirds of A. C. & R. is to be owned by I. T. & T., one-third by bondholders in the old Postal. Traffic contracts will link Postal's land lines to the international network...
...Vice Governor retired for consultation. Next day a gilded barge pulled out, with the Governor himself aboard. Upshot was that President Fillmore's letter was delivered, Perry sailed away, went back after six months, and negotiated the first U. S.-Japanese trade treaty. Negotiations culminated in a grand feast and bottle party on Mississippi's quarterdeck. Just before he passed out, the Japanese High Commissioner flung his arms around a captain's neck and declared through happy tears: "Nippon and America, all same heart." For the next 77 years-until 1931-the U. S.-Japanese heart beat...
Then Great Britain offered its "good offices." Upshot was that last week Marshal Pétain entertained at luncheon Spanish Foreign Minister Juan Beigbeder y Atienza and a French delegation of commercial experts, let it be announced that Spain and France would sign a trade agreement early this week. Strangely enough, Foreign Minister Beigbeder's father was a German, his mother tongue is German and he was once Spanish military attache in Berlin...
...statement also warned that the notes, because of their, brevity, do not give the student the correct interpretation of a mass of facts. "The upshot of this treatment is that the notes are too incomplete to reproduce the essential reading, too long to be effective for rapid review, and too brief to deal with the vital interpretation...
...Rains Came (20th Century-Fox) suggests that, unless Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck abates his enthusiasm for bigger & better cinema catastrophes, the upshot may well have to be an autobiography culminating in the destruction by brimstone of the 20th Century-Fox studios. Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start...