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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circus duty. According to one of its inmates. Rev. Charles Jarvis Harriman of Philadelphia's Episcopal Church of St. James the Less, the camp cost $600 as against preliminary estimates of $4,300. "God guidance is the answer," said Mr. Harriman. "We did not see how we could afford several thousand dollars to get our equipment from large supply houses, so we consulted God." The Groupers had 20 caddies carry tables for nothing from the town hall to the mess tent. "Guid ance," said Grouper Harriman. "That's what made me walk on the golf course just...
...protesting Xieman kin also upset the plan of the Journal's ruddy Publisher Harry Johnston ("The Chief"') Grant to take over, along with Mr. Nieman's niece Fay McBeath and any Journal employes who could afford to buy in the 1,100 shares of Journal stock which Mr. Nieman left in trust. The Xieman trust represents 55% of the paper's controlling interest. Of the remaining 900 shares, Mr. Grant already owns 400, while 500 are held by Mrs. Susan Boyd of Wilmington, Del., widow of a onetime Journal business manager. The Grant plan would create...
When American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated radio-telephone service in 1927, few people except bankers and politicians could afford to use it. A three-minute Manhattan-to-London call cost $75. During the first year of the service only 2,500 calls were made. The following year A. T. & T. was able to make the first rate cut, London calls dropping to $45. In 1930 another cut was made, bringing London down to $30. Record day on this schedule was last Christmas when 360 overseas calls were handled in 24 hours. Last week A. T. & T. made still another...
...farm trend, is now unscrambling families which doubled up for economy during Depression, has boosted the marriage rate, a fundamental real-estate statistic. The marriage rate drops far below normal in lean years, creating a "reserve" of unmarried people who hasten to the altar as soon as they can afford it. "The reserve at the present time is about three times as great as it has ever been before," says Mr. Wenzlick. "The release of only a portion of this reserve in the next five years would create the greatest housing shortage we have ever experienced...
Students haven't changed much during the last half century, according to Mr. Taylor, except that they used to take a good deal more care about their clothes. Those who could afford good clothes wore them, and would have scorned the grey flannel, checkered coat with patched sleeves, and decayed shoes seen about the Square today...