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...year ago, U. S. copper producers were inclined to think that only this continent, in the future as in the past, could furnish copper in large amounts when the demand for the red metal revived. Some of them have been treated to a rude shock by the sudden recent prominence in the industry of the Katanga mines in mid-Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: African Copper | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...Several love plots are included in the comedy, which has a great deal of action, is filled with amusing situations and nice subtleties, and has a strong love appeal. However, in the opinion of J. D. Lodge '25, president of the Cercle, there is no reason why it should shock its audiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE CHOOSES COMEDY FOR INITIAL VENTURE | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

Your editorials of last Friday may prove "the shot heard 'round the world", and, if so, may shock--or shame--an ungrateful University to appreciation. Donald Wait Keyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 10/1/1924 | See Source »

...there is considerable dramatic dredging to be done before the course of true love again runs smooth. Warren Kerrigan buckles and swashes diligently in the title part to excellent effect. Jean Paige is a distinct optical advantage. The explosion of a pirate galleon is the most engrossing single shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 29, 1924 | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...Star News Co., Manhattan. Onetime Chief of the U. S. Secret Service, Editor Flynn promised to go "far back into the recesses of his own life for thrills and action; those early days in New York when he himself set his feet on the downtown pavements and met the shock of the lawless." All this and more for ten cents per week. In his ransacking, Editor Flynn had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of discovering "a wholly new writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flynn's | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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