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...Inside Red China); John Alexander, secretary to British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr; and Shanghai Municipal Council's factory inspector, Rewi Alley. Their conclusion: China's only military skill was in small, mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung. They, too, were keen. Dr. Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese), promised $3,000,000 more...
Quick to jump at the opportunity was RCA, which has sunk more than $10,000,000 in television development, thinks it has the foundation for a great new industry with millions of sets in U. S. homes, with millions of dollars in created income for entertainers, salesmen, writers, technicians, factory workers. To its factory in Camden, N. J. went orders to step up production of receivers, then averaging about seven a day. To its sales department went orders to get ready to sell 25,000 television sets because RCA: 1) was ready to begin taking some revenue from its pioneering...
...studying the development of modern American classical music, the extent of the influence of the Negro folk song can easily be underestimated. The beginning of this influence was the enthusiasm of Dvorak after his visit to America in the late 1890's, and the effect that it had on the young American composers of the time. Following his lead, a small school of devotees grew up, but produced, unfortunately, no work of outstanding merit. In 1924, the French composer, Darius Milhaud, wrote: ". . . Negro music, with its deep human content which is about to create as complete a revolution...
Like most books by working newspapermen, this one is better in detail than in structure. Authors Thompson & Raymond never develop their reference to a fact which would seem highly relevant to the present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the borough of diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket...
...built by Douglas in Santa Monica, the B19 will easily dwarf all previous U. S. planes, including the newest 41-ton trans-Pacific Clipper, will be half again as large as the outdated 12-motor, 100-passenger German DO-X. The Douglas B19, wingspread 210 ft., four-motored to develop 6,000 h. p., will have a 6,000-mile range, will sleep a ten-man crew. Although an experiment in military plane-building, the B-19 is expected greatly to influence peacetime passenger transport trends...