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...Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...
Biggest Congress personality is 69-year-old Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Politically astute as well as religiously ascetic. Saint Gandhi has long been a virtual Congress dictator, his word being law and his selection of party officials final...
...more), Manhattan's National City Bank found cause for optimism: their inventories were off an average of 10% from a year ago, 15% from the peak of the Depression II inventory glut in September 1937. Both in its evidence and its opinion. National City thus reflected the virtual consensus among businessmen that the inventory problem, so severe year ago, is now well in hand...
Since Rumania is already under a virtual dictatorship, Kind Carol's purge of his Fascist opponents is in itself hardly an event of universal importance. At the same time, if viewed in the light of corollary events, the purge takes on added significance. It may indicate that little Rumania has decided definitely to oppose--and, with the help of Britain, effectively to oppose--the eastward march of the rumbling Fascist juggernaut...
Most significant advance this year is the virtual disappearance of the familiar wobble-stick gearshift lever; almost all 1939 cars will sport some sort of steering-post-mounted gearshift either as standard or extra equipment. While most of these systems are merely conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller...