Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your Lincoln, Neb. correspondent is right about the hog on ice and wrong about the hog going to war. He approaches his opponent slowly and obliquely so as to make best use of his tusks...
...been chosen Chief Executive with the mandate to seek by definite action to correct many evils of the past and of the present: to work for a wider distribution of national income, to improve the conditions of life, especially among those who need it most and above all to use every honest effort to keep America in the van of social and economic progress...
Because there is ice in Juneau harbor some months of the year, Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers-probably the Boeing 307s, scheduled for delivery this autumn. Also it hopes to get Congress to build landing fields, on the same principle by which railroads got land grants. Chief lobbying point is military: when this last zig is filled in, Nome will be only 24 hours from Washington...
...grab the profits of their own pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent...
Poetic license and a readiness to believe miracles did the rest. ("When you object, in the scientific twentieth century, to the magic of the fifth, it is no use expecting me to share your incredulity.") Readers are likely to prefer Gogarty's pilgrimage when he loses track...