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...Show Is On - The season's top in musicals, with Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr in peak form...
...grip on the league pennant last year, the team starts the new year's venture under a cloud of official disfavor which rained heavily in Mr. Bingham's late report on the state of athletics. For in last year's games the custom of badgering umpires reached such a peak that self-respecting umpires took their lives in their hands in attempting to referee Harvard contests...
...peak week last December, Goliath General Motors Corp. produced 53,000 automobiles. Last week with all its 69 automobile plants closed or crippled by strikes, the world's largest motor manufacturer turned out a piddling 1,500 units, mostly trucks. The idle bulk of its 135,000 production employes continued last week, the fifth of the strike, to lose around $800,000 per day in wages. For the first time G. M.'s 330.000 stockholders felt the pinch as quarterly dividends were lopped from 50? to 25?-per share...
There was no doubt last week, however, that the sun was working up a fine case of sunspot pox. Sunspot activity waxes & wanes in cycles of about eleven years. A new cycle started in 1933, its peak is expected in 1939. Sunspots appear to be the mouths of whirling funnels of gas originating in the solar interior. It has been suggested that the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is the cause of the internal commotion which gives rise to sunspots...
...best gains were made outside the Big Four. Indeed, Swift & Co., No. 1 meat handler of the U. S., reported a sharp drop in profits ($17,651,000 to $12,103,000) in spite of the fact that sales were $831,671,000 and tonnage at an all-time peak. Wilson & Co. showed a slight decline ($4,068,000 as against $4,109,000). Basic reason for this countertrend in a year of expanding industrial earnings was the confusion in meat markets caused by invalidation of AAA processing taxes and the subsequent drought, which forced farmers to slaughter a vast...