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...foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter and for which many airlines are eagerly waiting is Pan American Airway's famed Direction Finder system, the manufacturing rights to which cagey Vincent Bendix acquired last month. A complex mechanism by far the best of its kind in the world, it works from the ground, locates a plane precisely the instant the pilot asks his position. Its range...
...Hearst enterprises are being put through a stiff course of corporate simplification. When the proposed financing is completed all Hearst magazines will be lumped in one package, Hearst Magazines Inc. What may look like simplicity to Mr. Hearst and his chief legal lieutenant, John Francis Neylan, would still look complex to the layman. But in the case of Hearst Magazines one thing is crystal clear: Mr. Hearst needs cash...
...generated a swarm of new stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...
...mood in which the literary undergraduate is new working, possibly it may be traceable to the instruction in composition courses, for which many of the contributions appear to have been written. I should describe it as the awareness of contrast between the ordinary American life, and the vast complex of older, deeper, more heavily charged forces which impinge upon it everywhere. This contrast, it seems to me, is exploited, openly or tacitly, with real effect by practically all the contributors...
Like his student friends, young Szymanowski went to Berlin to broaden his studies. There he picked up mannerisms of Brahms and Strauss, did not lose them for years. During the War he suddenly began to write in the complex chords of Scriabin, did most of his important work under that influence...