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...Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime he didn't commit. The picture ends with Garfield taking his last long walk, strut...
Ever since the U. S. Government began building big Bonneville Dam (potential capacity: 518,400 kilowatts) and bigger Grand Coulee Dam (1,890,000 kilowatts) on the nonindustrialized Columbia River, Northwesterners have wondered who was going to buy the power. Last Christmas they got an initial answer: Aluminum Co. of America contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant near Portland, buy 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville juice...
...Grand Coulee Candidate Dewey met New Dealish Chief Harry Owhi of the Nez Percé Indians but was not invited to join the tribe. He looked over the dam that will produce 2,646,000 h.p., provide irrigation for approximately 1.200,000 acres, said that as an American he was proud of it, denied that it could be an issue of 1940's campaign. ("There is an important and vital issue, though, in whether the country will go ahead on the basis of free private enterprise, so that you can employ the power that is generated there to give...
...stock boom, then limited their stock distributions (Standard Brands, Johns-Manville, sprawling United Corp., ill-fated Alleghany) to rich individuals and friends. When the crash came, it was once more the House of Morgan that led the bankers' rescue syndicate: a $240,000,000 attempt to dam the flood of sales. But the effort was futile. When realistic Partner Thomas W. Lamont informed the Stock Ex change's Board of Governors of the pool, his own words skewered the situation: "There is no man nor group of men who can buy all the stocks that the American public...
After World War I Britain's railways presented their Government with a whopping $300,000,000 bill for rent and dam ages, which the Government paid under protest. This time the Government wanted nothing like that, and on Sept. 1 it simply took control of all railway transportation in the British Isles. Since then stockholders have waited anxiously to find out how much profit the Government would allow them...