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...Countryside (All-American Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Composer Cowell at the piano; Columbia; 4 sides). Henry ("Tone Clusters") Cowell has been noted chiefly as a composer-pianist who plays his ear-wrenching works partly with his fists and elbows. This composition is in a surprising, melodious vein that sounds somewhat like Sibelius...
...Dere as an aging maiden aunt is a bit different from the sophisticated authoress she played last week, more in the vein of here three-year "Tobacco Road" part, but still good. The rest of the cast is capable, with actor-director Bob Perry playing well Dorothy Lambert handling a finicky mother part adequately, and Louise Valery making a nice finance to inventor-mechanic Richard Hart...
...decline from $3,500,000 to $708,750. The price fell first when the carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery in 1930 of a rich vein of pitchblende-the ore containing uranium and radium-at Great Bear Lake on the Arctic Circle in Canada (in North America only Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan are larger...
Today ATC, big as it is, is still only a skeleton of the vast structure it will become by the end of this year. Its operating lines already vein the world. Its freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...
Continuing in the financial vein, between February 1 and June 1, you will have earned $260 as Midshipmen, out of which you received $40 in cash. Subtract your Coop, laundry, and tailor bills, ship's service charges, and special withdrawals, and you will know how much to expect . . . maybe...