Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME might better criticize the pig-headed public in general and the boycotting New Yorkers in particular, instead of Grover Whalen and the World's Fair organization for lack of patronage at the World of Tomorrow. Perhaps the statement made by TIME in its July 24 issue, p. 54, that no U. S. world's fair ever charged more than 50? is true. But was there ever a fair, or any other show, which offered the public such superb entertainment from 9 a.m. until far into the night...
...citizens stuck with German bonds, SEC's refusal to let Germany "pay" was no great loss, if anything, opened possibilities of a better deal. The bonds were last week kicking around in Wall Street for 25? on the dollar, in Germany, at 60 pfennig on the 100 pfennig Reichsmark (good only in Germany). If SEC had accepted the application, bondholders would have got $35,000,000 of bonds (1937 and '38 interest) which at 3% would have netted them about $1,000,000 a year in usable money. British holders of German bonds got a better deal which...
...sugar market and Crucians could no longer buy corn meal and salt fish to keep their fungee pots going. But relief cards, at first ignored as a white man's joke, soon brought an unprecedented prosperity. The Negroes, given canned goods, traded them for rations they liked better, for bright flimsy dresses, dime-store jewelry, tobacco...
...characters." "The average summer boarder," says dry-spoken Innkeeper Seth Hammond Ownley, "is forever hunting 'characters' and forgetting to look in the looking glass for a specimen." Novelist Lincoln, now 69, comes of a seafaring Cape family, was once a commercial artist. To make his drawings sell better, he wrote verses and jokes to go with them. Soon the verses outsold the pictures. Cap'n Eri, his first novel, was a bestseller in 1904; he has been publishing bestsellers ever since...
...slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would do credit to a brothel-keeper. Sample Dix advice to the nubile: "A young girl who lets any one boy monopolize her simply shuts the door in the face of good times and her chances of making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note how a man reacts to the money proposition before she says 'Yes' to a marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts are more profitable than comforting a widower. But remember that fast work is required. . . . Girls write their own price...