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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heard the new Casa Loma (Decca) album and it was well worth it. With the exception of Murray McEachern, trombone-sax man recently acquired from Benny Goodman, the band doesn't play much swing. But it does play a great deal of the ensemble work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable...
Then the Narcotics division announced some facts: Tom Pendergast's town traded in $12,000,000 worth of narcotics a year, served a vast territory. Most surprising fact: that healthy, husky Texas is a dopey State. Rated next to Kansas City as consuming centres were Galveston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston. Nor is this because of the Mexican population. Texas has oil. Prostitutes follow oil workers. Dope goes with prostitutes. Most Texas addicts are Anglo-Saxons, some are children...
Biggest 25? worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...
...keep distress selling of the estimated $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 worth of Anglo-French-owned U. S. securities from cracking the market, already depressed by widespread bearishness on domestic business prospects, obvious aids would be: 1) to relax margin requirements to protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until...
...body-builder's art. It seats nine people comfortably (aside from any on the top), is equipped with fog lights, radio, streamlined glass wind-wings, many another luxury, including extra-depth cushions for Fair visitors who may be as tender as they are distinguished. It contains $1,850 worth of chassis and engine, $5,150 worth of body and design...