A Farewell to Alms A Farewell to Alms A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is a 2007 book about economic history by Gregory Clark. It is published by Princeton University Press. The book's title is a pun on Ernest Hemingway's novel, "A Farewell to Arms". The book discusses the divide between rich and poor nations that came about as a result of the Industrial Revolution in terms of the evolution of particular behaviours that Clark claims first occurred in Britain. Prior to 1790, Clark asserts that man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food,
Happy Days (1929 film) merged in 1935 with Twentieth Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox. No widescreen print of "Happy Days" is known to survive. Happy Days (1929 film) Happy Days is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world, filmed in the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. French director Abel Gance's "Napoléon" (1927) had a final widescreen segment in what Gance called Polyvision. In 1927, Paramount released "Old Ironsides" with two sequences in a widescreen process called "Magnascope". In 1928, MGM released "Trail of '98"