Word: audition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest Negro newspaper in the world is the weekly Pittsburgh Courier. The Courier last year had 138,299 readers according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Its press run now is close to 170,000. Not more than about 10% of its circulation is in Pittsburgh; the rest is scattered over the U. S., ranges as far afield as the West Indies, China, Jerusalem...
Arithmetic is as much a concern to the 60 professional showmen who have cast their pitch in the New York World's Fair amusement area as it is to the amateur showmen who are struggling with the Big Show itself. At the last audit, fortnight ago, the amusement section had divided a take from Fair visitors of a shade over $3,000,000, and it was not enough...
...about the efficiency of WPA's handling of large projects and about its executive set-up (last week the committee, having found $21,000,000 could be knocked out of WPA's $71,000,000 list of administrative costs & materials, talked of having the General Accounting Office audit all WPA expenditures in at least one sample past year). Another reason: when PWA builds something in his community a Congressman can point and say, "I got you that, folks." You can't point to a pile of WPA-raked leaves...
...Manhattan every Sunday afternoon is published a flamboyant newspaper called the New York Enquirer. The Enquirer's headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin...
Last week Carmi Thompson and his badgered associates finally won a clean bill of health. On the basis of an independent audit by a special master. Judge William E. Baker declared Fidelity fully solvent, dismissed the petition...