Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid the late Enrico Caruso alone some $3,000,000 in record royalties. What they paid for was a croaking shadow of Caruso's ringing voice. But in the days of hand-cranked Victrolas, even shadows were marvels of scientific progress. When the radio arrived in the early 20s, Victor Talking Machine Co., with Caruso as its biggest name, was doing more than half the industry's business to the tune of more than $50,000,000 annually. But by 1925 that figure had dwindled nearly 50%, and the heaps of records in Victor's stockrooms...
Henry Wallace's Department of Agriculture winced at the facts. The Department of Commerce reported that only 3,327,000 bales of the 1938-39 crop were exported, a 60-year low, 40.6% less than the previous year, 69.4% less than the high of the 20s (10,927,000 bales). To top this, the Census Bureau announced its count on the U. S. carryover of cotton: a record total of 13,032,611 bales, up 1,499,172 from last market year's hoard...
...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...
Some 30 years ago sleek, bandboxical "Dapper Don" Collins began looting telephone boxes, soon graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...
...first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle '20s...