Word: 1s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant at Middle River, Md., got its start with a real automobile-type assembly line with thumping orders of 151 Bio bombers from the Army and 117 more from The Netherlands. North American sold 350 of its BT-9s to the Air Corps and 457 BT-9s and BC-1s (a combat edition) to France and Britain to start its line. Douglas with an order for 100 of its new attack bombers from France, has a $15,000,000 order from the Air Corps for the new ships...
Died. Philip Kip Rhinelander, 42, once wealthy first son of a famed New York family* of heart disease; in a $1s-a-week rooming house; in Manhattan...
...concert artists formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller U. S. opera companies. Last week, A. G. M. A. bagged a real prize...
Matches. Bolstering the Russian embargo the duty on foreign matches is upped from 4s 4d to 4s 9d per gross of containers. Imported cigaret lighters will pay a tax of 1s 6d each, a 200% increase. Domestic lighters will be taxed 1s, a 100% increase...
...offence shall require, not exceeding ten shillings, or ten stripes for one offenses." Until 1734, the flogging often took place in public. Some of the early fines were: neglecting to repeat the sermon, 9d; going out of college without proper costume, 6d; and frequenting taverns, not over 1s., 6d. Opening doors by picklocks was also an offense...