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...Power of Evil tells what happens when a family conceals the fact that its daughter has epilepsy so as to marry her to the richest young man in the village. It is subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...
...Samuel Insull has been on hand to buy them in, not because he wanted to get into the sagging textile industry but because a textile plant in the hand is a power plant in the bush. Cotton mills are built beside waterfalls and alert Mr. Insull is a maker and seller of electricity...
...called in to build up Liberty's advertising. And the man is an oldtime Liberty counsellor, the best in the business, grey-haired James O'Shaughnessy, longtime Executive Secretary of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (Four A's), famed as a goodwill-maker as well as for his knowledge of advertising, one of the most universally popular practitioners in a highly temperamental profession...
George S. Parker, of Janesville, Wis.> maker of fountain pens in six colors, offered all farmers in six townships surrounding his home 12½% of the cost of painting their barns, provided they would not use red. Said he: "The average farmer's barn is an eyesore. The red paint is monotonous...