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...full stride. More than a score of nations were approached and persuaded. In 1929 the biggest loan of all was made?$125.000,000 to Germany. It was secured not by a direct monopoly but by an agreement to ban all Russian matches. Since Swedish makes a good 70% of all matches used in Germany the terms were satisfactory. Worry over the safety of this loan was known to be one of the things depressing Ivar Kreuger last week...
...senior at Pottstown, Pa., High School. A year ago most experts would have selected Spitz as a sure member of the Olympic team but very few would have chosen Gene Venzke, a tenacious miler, seasoned in road races that develop stamina rather than speed, celebrated for a long smooth stride and a tendency to come in second. When he finally won the Columbian mile at the end of last year's indoor season in 4 min. and 14! sec., observers began to see Venzke's promise. But no one, with the possible exception of Mike Sweeney, track coach...
...better as time goes by. Above all, there is an incredibly clever continuity to make a smoothly-flowing film out of disconnected scenes. Mr. Fairbanks is never at a loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride about, with one foot in Tibet and another in Hong Kong, pointing out the route. Again, when time presses, he produces a most convincing magic carpet to whisk his party home to Hollywood on the tick of the eightieth minute. Yet these tricks of photography and sound-recording seem...
Judging from the comparative times of advantages and falls, Chicago deserved to win the meet more than the Harvard wrestlers who have been thrown out of stride by mid-years. J. H. Crandon '33 proved to be too much out of condition after his long absence from the mat to offer real competition to his rival...
...function, Board Chairman George M. Reynolds of National Credit Corp., privately financed at President Hoover's instigation last October to advance up to $500,000,000 to shaky banks, announced from Chicago that his agency would gradually cease operations when R. F. C. got into its full stride. Since its incorporation, said he, the pool had made 750 different loans totalling $153,000,000.* Of the 575 borrowing banks, 17 have failed; no one could say how perilously close to failure had been the other 558 banks which N. C. C. had helped...