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Four Men and a Prayer (Twentieth Century-Fox) demonstrates in brisk, British-cut, melodramatic fashion: 1) that the sun never sets on Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Clive of India, The House of Rothschild, Lloyd's of London), and 2) that Producer Zanuck can excuse the world munitions ring for any atrocity except an affront to British family honor...
...remained static at about the same level as the last four or five weeks. Economists wondered whether this was the basement of the Roosevelt Recession or only a landing on the escalator to ruin. As the President's inflationary plans for reviving business gave stocks and commodities a brisk rally, there were champions for both sides of the question...
...Healey singled, but Doyle was held up at second base. Bob Gannett was called out on strikes, but Art Johns walked filling the bases. The next man up was Lupien who had singled and tripled on two previous occasions at bat, but in his final effort he poled a brisk line drive into the hands of centerfielder Brown to end the inning...
Primed with these ideas, reporters gave the President a brisk quizzing. What did he think of Government guarantee of re-organization bonds? Franklin Roosevelt replied that he could see no more justification for guaranteeing railroad reorganization bonds than for those of a cotton mill, steel company or automobile factory. A reporter suggested that it might be done to protect insurance companies and others with large railroad holdings. There has been a lot of loose talk about that, snapped the President, when, as a matter of fact, banks and insurance companies generally make a practice of writing down their portfolios along...
Last July Cargill and Farmers National had a brisk little fight between themselves. Cargill then held the long interest in corn and Farmers the short, but at the last minute Farmers dumped 500,000 bu. of previously invisible corn on the market, gave Cargill a real trimming as the price fell 27?. Last September Cargill got even. With only a small carryover from the previous year, corn was scarce anyway and Cargill bought almost twice as much (6,000,000 bu.) as there was available for delivery that month. There followed a mad forage for corn by shorts, of whom...