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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Doubleday, Doran, in size ranking second only to Macmillan Co. in the U. S. (In 1929 Macmillan published 736 titles, Doubleday, Doran, 488, all others less.) Dynamic chief executive of this concern is Nelson Doubleday, tall, handsome, smart son of the Founder. His first fame resulted from selling 2,000,000 copies of the Book of Etiquette by mail...
Significance of the occasion was the size of the screen. It was the first demonstration of life-size television. After three years of work Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, G. E. researcher, had developed his images from postage stamp size to a scale where the theatre owners deemed it suitable for inclusion in their regular show program...
...kick in Mr. Garner's threat-proposal lay in the fact that Texas can turn itself into five States whether or not the rest of the U. S. approves. When Texas was admitted into the Union 84 years ago, Congress authorized it to form "new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas." So immense is Texas (265,896 sq. mi.) that few persons can conceive of its size. It takes as long by train to travel from the Panhandle on the north to Brownsville on the south...
...blazed. Latest reports were that the original locust offensive had been checked in Egypt, but a second wave was expected when eggs deposited in billions by locusts now dead should hatch. At each lay a single female locust deposits 8,000 eggs in a glutinous egg sac about the size and shape of an ordinary druggist's capsule...
Last week President Julius Littman, in the company 47 years, gloomily said: ''Now there is no business to speak of with the exception of horseback riding equipment. This is growing . . . but decidedly insufficient to bolster up a company the size of ours...