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...more interesting medium of communication, sold the system to International Telephone & Telegraph. By June 1935, I. T. & T. was fed up with advancing Postal cash to pay the $2,500,000-a-year interest on its bonds, let it slip into 77-B. Largest independent bondholder: Lehman Bros, (and clients), whose Bondholders Committee finally represented some $30,000,000 (about 60%) of the bonds...
...seven-day-a-week soul of Juan Trippe this was as it should be. But for a long time the one-man control of Pan Am had worried his Board of Directors, which represents such money bags as Lehman Bros., New York Trust and Bankers Trust, such earthbound transport entities as Atlantic Coast Line R. R. and United States (shipping) Lines...
Brother Rat and a Baby (Warner Bros.) should prove embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly...
...Fortnight ago Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. sold two cargo ships, aggregating about 19,000 deadweight tons to Great Britain. Of its 52 vessels, 14 are under charter to Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., carrying the raw material for explosives and fertilizer to the U. S., Hawaii and Japan...
...Child Is Born (Warner Bros.) records with varying degrees of self-conscious pathos and humor the birth of seven infants. In this somewhat redundant remake of the tear-jerking stage play, Life Begins, first screened in 1932, grave, talented, strikingly lovely Geraldine Fitzgerald plays the mother who dies (from a Caesarean operation) that her baby may live. Other maternity-ward performers: Spring Byington, Gloria Holden, Gladys George, and 20 babies (average age 14 days), who, by working a total of 73 seconds, earning $75, became Hollywood's highest-paid actors. From their pay checks the far-sighted...