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...statement of the comparison of numbers to which you refer will be found in the Historical Section in the catalog, copy of which 1 am forwarding, on p. 18. This statement reads as follows: "Colonel Fleet continued as Superintendent of the institution for fourteen years, the school under his direction growing steadily in size, and perfecting its methods and equipment. In the course oj twelve years, from a corps of thirty cadets, quartered in a frame building, and scarcely known within its own State, the Academy grew to an enrollment, including its winter and summer sessions, of 677 cadets, over...
Street Scene (United Artists). In making a picture out of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Producer Samuel Goldwyn proceeded simply. He bought the screen rights for $150,000, hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect...
This first venture, at Kiowa, was lucky. It netted Sinclair $100,000, a nice sum but nothing in comparison to what was coming. By 1909 with luck and judgment he made a million buying, developing and reselling oil lands. Independent, working mostly alone he continued on this line until 1926 when he consolidated seven small companies into Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. The company grew and prospered apace. Fleets of tankers roamed the seas carrying the name Sinclair. This alert, grinning, hard-headed man's influence was felt in Moscow, Lisbon, Africa, while his company became integrated, rivalled some Standard...
...called on the chief of the nation's health army, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming, for the health figures of 1928, when jobs were plenty, for comparison with the health figures of the two Depression years. Surgeon General Gumming promptly replied with batteries of comparable statistics and with comments...
...News. That was not surprising. In the News's full page of congratulatory messages to the new publisher there were greetings from nearly every famed publisher in the U. S., even a telegram from President Hoover, but no word from Mr. Hearst. Even more eloquent was a comparison of news accounts in Manhattan dailies. The Times printed a column-and-a-half story and an editorial on the Knox purchase. The Herald Tribune and Sun gave more than half a column each. Both mentioned prominently the Colonel's former high position with Hearst. But Hearst's American...