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...said with visible emotion: ". . . While I appreciate the sympathy, I take exception to the diminutive, and most strongly object to the 'dear.' At least as far as international law is concerned, I think that my country deserves a better name than 'dear little Holland.' " The area of the Netherlands is 13,208 sq. mi. (about three times the size of Connecticut). Its population: 7,625,938. The Dutch Kingdom in the East Indies is 733,642 sq. mi. (about one-fourth the size of the U. S.) in extent and has a population...
...early form of talking pictures (sound-on-record), many companies have been experimenting with the photography of sound on the film itself. A new sound-on-film process worked out by Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last week Warner Brothers-following their...
...when the Farm Relief Act was hopefully new and before the Farm Board had called for acreage cuts, caused a price flurry in the Chicago wheat pit. Drought and hot winds threatened a reduced yield, sent July prices up 10? per bushel. Then came rains over the winter wheat area and quotations slumped back to last week's closing...
...Canon Alexander's opinion this would mean the crumbling end of one of London's tallest, most venerated buildings. He urged that Parliament create the region of St. Paul's a "sacred area" within which all digging and blasting would be perpetually forbidden. First proposed in 1912 the "sacred area" scheme was rejected then by a businessmen's majority of the London City Corporation...
...Abode of Daughters of Joy," among the most sumptuous quarters in New Tokyo, and the first to be completely rebuilt. Not in the fire area was the smart residential district near the Imperial Palace and the Akasaka Palace (8) of Crown Prince Chichibu...