Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally concluded last week, amid typical, more-than-Oriental magnificence. In a gilded coach behind four arching white horses, guarded by 32 men in white uniforms, glistening breastplates, black thigh-boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor...
...sales this reduction by itself might appear small comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...
...young Wolfs had had a bright idea. Small cinema houses wanted to stage shows but could not afford them. Fanchon & Marco offered units at a reasonable price, equipped them and rehearsed them in Hollywood, sent them out complete with costumes, scenery and songs. Their studio on Sunset Boulevard near Western became a factory for mass production of 15-minute shows. They needed bright youngsters who would work cheap. Janet Gaynor swung on a chandelier from the stage of Loew's State in Los Angeles; Myrna Loy's rice-powdered legs pranced in many a chorus; Bing Crosby, shaking...
...loungers and boulevard philosophers were less absorbed in Premier Blum's political problems than in a treatise which he wrote 25 years ago, called Le Mariage, but which only lately crashed into the limelight. By last week these amateur reflections on the subject nearest to every Frenchman's heart had run to a 20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life...
Flanked by their advisers, the rival generals maneuvered from headquarters two miles apart. G. M.'s Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...