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...splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled two weeks later. As an active head of the Free Press he plans to nurse it gently from a rock-ribbed, standpat Republicanism to a more Independent demeanor, for he likes to be free to jump in any political direction, favors the Third Term in a mild...
...Union Pacific; Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Illinois Central; Santa Fe; Burlington; Rock Island; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee...
...watt bulbs for electric displays, they found after World War I that General Electric's patents were law-proof, settled down to make bulbs under G. E. license, on a production quota of 2% of G. E.'s own. Pushing like a radish sprout under a rock, the Poor Brothers merged with other small licensees, ran their quota up to 10%, became No. 3 lamp maker (after G. E. & Westinghouse...
...Lost World, spectacularly illustrates the Hal Roach theory of evolution-when Cave Boy meets Cave Girl there is a big improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically every geologic epoch, all of whom share a taste for cave folk...
...grisly Rock People are scarcely less gluttonous. In one spirited set-to over supper, Tumak, the picture's Tarzan-like hero (Victor Mature), is heaved off a cliff by Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...