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...year the company announced it would be unable to pay on its notes. Standard Statistics Co., biggest of them all, began an expansion at the time of the 1929 crash, by 1931 had 1,300 employes, a lease on six floors (plus an option on two more) of a brand-new building and its own printing plant. When public interest in the market sank to apathy, Standard could not retrench fast enough. Salaries were cut, the staff was trimmed, executives went months without pay. Nevertheless, the company probably lost money steadily from 1933 through...
...blend in the 85 mm.s he could broaden their market. The 20% extra length would give a cooler, longer smoke; the 11% extra tobacco required would hike the manufacturing cost only 35? a thousand (from around $5)-not enough to throw them out of price competition* with the popular brands. Young Mr. Riggio figured right. The first year (1939) his Regent brand, with outlets only in New York and New England, sold 200,000,000 cigarets. Papa Riggio smiled...
...unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household, where Brennan, the village postman, is required to make middle-aged puppy love to Miss Broderick, Benchley's housekeeper. Deanna, a little more mature, a little more cosmeticized with a brand-new pair of arched eyebrows, is mainly occupied with trying to catch the eye of her next-door neighbor (toothy Robert Stack), who seems more interested in his automobile...
...Paris a small group of politicians and would-be Gauleiters control the press and the radio, try to sell their brand of collaboration to the French people. But the people of Occupied France, in daily contact with their conquerors, detest them only a little less than they hate the traitors who collaborate with them in spreading anti-British propaganda (see cut, p. 25). These people put their hopes in De Gaulle...
...Hollywood has substituted a slow, sentimental account of Jeeter's aged life & times. Jeeter has one decrepit jalopy that explodes as often as the trick clowns' car in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. And when his son Dude (William Tracy) goes hog-wild with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include...