Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn Mr. Sloan proudly counted the results: the industry's 320,000 employes in March had become 465,000 in September. Its $12,800,000 monthly payroll had become $26,000,000 in September. Textile workers were earning 40% more per week in spite of working shorter hours. Everyone was proud...
...measures were beginning to be discussed, George Sloan issued a statement opposing such a cotton processing tax as AAA later imposed. He declared : "The extensive price increases necessitated by the tax will decrease the consumption of cotton and cause widespread displacement of workers in the cotton textile industry." By autumn the price of cotton had jumped from 6¢ to 92 ½ç per Ib. and on top of that was a 4.2¢ processing tax. Labor was costing the industry 69% more per hour. The price of cotton print goods followed the trend of costs by doubling from March...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
...witness stand at his trial, swore that he had been with her in a hotel at the time. When police held them both for violation of the Mann Act "Machine Gun Jack" married Louise Rolfe. He turned to "organizing union labor," developed an excellent game of golf, last autumn played the first seven holes of the Western Open Championship in one under par, only to have the police arrest him for vagrancy on the eighth tee. No such golfer as her husband, Mrs. Gebardi was eliminated in the first round of last week's tournament, three down on the 16th...
...pioneer seven years ago in using the phonograph to preserve U. S. regional dialects, Professor Greet has roamed the land, taught his methods in summer school at Columbia. Last week it was announced that he will supervise a full graduate course there this autumn, in a new "Language Room" equipped with recording instruments, disks, phonographs, charts and a phonetics exhibit. In addition, each & every Columbia freshman will be required to make three phonograph records during the year, by which his speech defects may be corrected. These records will comprise an extempore recitation on a subject like "How I Spent...