Bette Davis and Wyler Ties Drive Golden Studio Bets
Samuel Goldwyn has a solid trio of Bette Davis director William Wyler and recent work The Little Foxes. They produced Jezebel winner of Davis second Oscar and The Letter, a big hit. Davis now stars in The Man Who Came to Dinner and prefers legitimate comedy to The Bride Came C. O. D. which she found too slapstick.
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Amuel Goldwyn
Bette Davis
William Wyler
Little Foxes
Jezebel
Bette
James Cagney
RKO might cast Terry Frost after stage success in Last Mile
RKO nearing star status for Terry Frost after he played Killer Mears on stage in The Last Mile and is set for film debut in Tim Holt’s Cyclone on Horseback. Other stage actors Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable earlier played Mears. Bert Gilroy mentored Gable’s first film Painted Desert.
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RKO
Little Foxes
Terry Frost
Killer Mears
Bert Gilroy
Tim Holt
Frost
Spencer Tracy
Clark Gable
Tax and advertising values in rural commerce expose hidden costs
The piece argues that consumer taxes are largely absorbed by corporations then shifted to buyers. It cites a 1940 survey of 165 companies paying 2.565 billion in taxes, boosting prices for 3.49 million employees and 6.36 million stockholders. It links rising 1941 tax expectations to consumer expenses and notes ad value in rural merchants.
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Toms, Dicks and Harrys of America
American Federation of Investors
United States
Lesson for August 31 on Scripture and salvation
The note outlines a lesson dated August 31 focusing on Scripture texts and a theological aim of salvation. It mentions internal revision by an organization and references an international council, indicating a religious educational context.
Grand Coulee Dam: World's Largest in Action
The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River is completed to form a 151 mile long reservoir. It will irrigate 1.2 million acres and power a region five times England, with a 0.75 mile long, 500 foot high barrier. Boulder Dam on the Colorado River creates a 115 mile lake after three years filling. Geologists speculate the vast water weight could bend the planet's crust.
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Grand Coulee
Columbia River
England
Boulder Dam
Colorado
Black Canyon
Habits of Salmon Across Pacific Waters
A Pathfinder note explains king salmon die after breeding season between July and December and do not return to the sea. Other salmon types return to the sea after spawning and stay there until the next breeding season. All salmon live partly in sea and freshwater, breeding in fresh water as they ascend rivers to spawn.
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