Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...
Stars & Stories. Cast is tricky, too. A pair of big stars doesn't necessarily add up to the combined drawing power of two alluring individuals. Surprisingly, several well-known names, too closely associated with unpopular movies, add to a picture's Don't-Want-to-See. Popular supporting players sometimes help. In rare instances, so does a director, like Alfred Hitchcock...
...that it becomes sickening to live for years on 7 oz. of fat (including all butter, margarine & lard) and less than 1 Ib. of meat a week. ... It is even true that over a period of years our diet is inadequate to maintain proper fitness and resistance to disease. Add to this fuel rationing, sky-high prices and acute housing shortage, and you will appreciate that for a victorious (sic) nation our position is not pleasant...
...strange political campaign. On July 16 the city will go to the polls and decide whether to recall Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham. Some San Franciscans wanted to oust him because his administration had put through a 3? fare rise on the city's rattletrap trolley lines. To add to the doctors' confusion, when they first hit town the trolleys were not even running. They were strikebound...
...University's new policy of cutting down the number of term bills and making each payment that much larger has other ill effects. Veterans entering college for the first time this summer found themselves ushered quickly to a choice spot behind the financial eight-ball. Men who must add to the government allotment in order to meet living costs have been forced to readjust strained budgets in order to simplify University bookkeeping. The stream of men petitioning for extensions, the loans, the red tape, the confusion, the added mental burden in face of the price mess, would all be avoided...