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...urge to see his name or image magnified. Influx of money and brains long since turned Hollywood's film studios into sharply defined units organized along the lines of most other agencies of mass production, except that the nature of their product makes the system more complex...
...Canada in the 1920s, then floated three stock issues and two bond issues. By 1935, when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved out of office and in last week's poker game this toppled tycoon sat quietly on whatever cards he may still hold...
...system of freight-rate disparities which favor the North. Last week, before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex controversy; in Buffalo, the North had the floor. ICC will now ponder whose victory would be best for the U. S. as a whole...
With some hope of salvaging its industry, the Association of American Railroads three months ago voted a 15% wage cut effective July 1 (TIME, May 9). But so complex is the machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act that the A. A. R. realized it would take several months of bickering to put through the cut. Last week the industry got a taste of what might happen in the meantime. Rutland Railroad Co. (407 miles of track mostly in Vermont), which has lost $2,000,000 since 1931, went into receivership two months ago and Federal Judge Harland B. Howe...
...vitamin B complex" contains at least 15 different entities, including B1 (prevents beri-beri); Bu (called riboflavin, prevents cataracts) ; nicotinic acid (prevents pellagra); a factor which prevents grey hair...