Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Library." For out of a welter of irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff) and a good many other people get into a good many messes, read very few books...
Last week people had reason to recall the Kid again. For out of the liveliest family shindig Hollywood has staged since the Mary Astor case had come two amazing bits of news. The first was that out of his vast earnings Jackie Coogan had got virtually nothing. The other was that if his billowy, multichinned mother and his slick, slanty-eyed, beaky stepfather and former adviser, Arthur L. Bernstein, had anything to say about it, he never would...
Instead of religious schools government-controlled secular education was expanded. Boy Scout movements were encouraged, the army was taught to read and write. Mohammedan law was largely nullified. The vexing problem of land titles was solved, one major result being that suddenly vast, rich areas became known as "crown property"-i.e., were simply taken by the Shah...
...meats not available, chicken reached price levels reminiscent of early oil-rush days. Eggs were soon unobtainable. No Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. employe suffers unduly from this lack of foodstuffs, for the rich concern, having profited from cash sales of oil to warring Italy three years ago, can import vast quantities of canned foods...
This action is only possible because Manhattan's vast Guaranty Trust Co. happens at the moment to have the balance of power in the situation. For years it has held all of Allegheny's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp. as collateral for three bond issues. By the highly unusual terms of the indenture, Guaranty may exercise voting rights on this stock whenever the market value of the collateral falls below 150% of the bonds' value as determined by quarterly appraisals, unless Chesapeake's owners restore the collateral to the 150% figure within 30 days. When...