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...Sharp Steel...
...gather from the report of the Hockey games between the Boston Bruins and the Ottawa Senators, in your SPORTS column, TIME, April 25, that sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck and that the games were marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. If I have misread your article, please inform...
...threatening to disintegrate or fly off the road. Ettore Bugatti, an Italian, manufactures this swift vehicle in Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes in the upper surface of the whalelike hull inhale air. The engines, developing 2,400 horsepower, will propel the craft...
...annual stockholders' meeting of the U. S. Steel Corp. in Manhattan last week, Judge Gary beamed at 250 investors, the greatest number he had ever seen at such a meeting. The rest of the corporation's 160,000 shareholders sent in their voting proxies as usual. But these 250 wanted actually to hear their own voices voting to increase their capitalization from $868,583,600 to $1,071,904,000. This nominally approximates $203,321,000 on the common stock. The market value of the new shares, however, is close...
George Antheil, U. S. born, European-educated, presented for the first time in his native land his Bullet Mecanique, which nearly precipitated a riot on its premiere in Paris (TIME, March 21). The young composer's theory is to express the U. S; in its own terms of steel, machinery, physical strength, without employing jazz. To this end he has created a symphony of percussion instruments, ten mechanical pianos, several xylophones, assorted bells, wind machines, aeroplane propellers, etc., abjuring completely more lyrical aids. The ballet is a thunderstorm of noise lasting a quarter-hour. Carnegie Hall, jammed...