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...gave buyers more for their money than they could get in walnut or fumed oak. In the 1920s automobiles displaced furniture as "Public Want No. 2" (No. 1-necessities of food and clothing) and contributed to the decline in furniture sales which began in 1927 after an all-time peak of $800,000,000 the preceding year. Other main cause was the downward curve of the building cycle, to which the furniture business is intimately geared. Thus the biggest problem of Depression-etherized furniture makers was how to cut costs through standardization and better planning, while their biggest hope...
...cinema producers is to produce cinemas. How to do so and at the same time deal with Hollywood's screen writers, actors and technicians, whose organizational activities in the course of the last month have reached a record peak, has lately been cinema producers' most pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia...
Knee-deep in snow 10,000 ft. up the granite scarp of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, last week a snowy-haired oldster of 90 named Ed Hamilton fingered a small splinter of duralumin while tears filled his eyes. Tugging at his white beard, he mumbled: "I'm glad. That...
...high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived, WAE launched a search which continued spasmodically until last week with the lure of a $1,000 reward. Fortnight ago a searcher on Lone Peak found some letters. Last week four men reached the scene of the crash almost simultaneously, agreed to share...
...Lone Peak is an 11,250-ft. sentinel on the edge of the valley up which WAE flies on the Salt Lake radio beam. This beam is notorious for "multiple effects" (splitting around mountains). Pilot Samson crashed 35 miles off course, apparently had lost the beam altogether. If he had been just a little higher, he would have cleared Hardy Ridge, had a safe path on to the airport. As it was, the plane was smashed into confetti and completely buried by snow. At week's end no bodies had yet been recovered and postal inspectors stood guard with...