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...enthusiastically by cinema critics, dubiously by the industry. Currently, its audience appeal wholly vindicated by its influence on other newsreels as well as by its popularity, the monthly two-reeler, distributed by RKO, is being shown in 7,560 U. S., 1,247 British Isle, 485 Australian and New Zealand and 750 Spanish-speaking theatres. Next month THE MARCH OF TIME will move into its own three-story Manhattan building. Last week's award coincided with MARCH OF TIME'S first French translation. This week LA MARCHE DU TEMPS, produced in France by Brother Richard de Rochemont, will...
...grind who was ashamed of being one, who prided himself rather on being a hanger-on of one of the best sets. He refused to be dragooned into the Church, instead vacillated a while, then let his father set him up as a sheep-rancher in New Zealand. There he prospered, in five years nearly doubled his investment. And there he picked up the first of his own hangers-on, one Pauli, a somewhat shady gentleman whom Butler supported thenceforth till Pauli's death. Back in England again, Butler settled down in London to read at the British Museum...
...Absolute hokum!* That would be 150 feet of travel per day. The fastest moving glaciers in the world, in New Zealand and Greenland, only move 30 feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually...
With 10,000 agents in the U. S. and a sprinkling in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Arabia, Fireman's Fund is now sixth in volume of premiums among all U. S. insurance companies. Premium income on its underwritings has risen from $12,658,000 in 1933 to $16,326,000 in 1936. Fire insurance is now its smallest field, ocean marine its largest. It writes all forms of insurance except life. Mr. Levison's successor as president of the com-pany is tall, bald Yaleman Charles R. Page. 59, who has been...
...interest in Standard's oil fields on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, Arabia and the Dutch East Indies. Standard got outlet for its oil, Texaco a source of supply for its distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal Dutch Shell and the Socony-Vacuum-Standard-of-New Jersey combination...