Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Service Bureau. One reason for high cinema producing costs is the fact that writers, actors and directors, employed on contract by individual studios, are frequently paid for doing nothing. Producers have often made plans to lend their employes to each other but nothing much has come of it. To facilitate...
Near Bowling Green, Ohio, 800 ugly-tempered farmers last week assembled at Wallace Kramp's place to watch a finance company foreclose its $800 mortgage. Bidding began at 15? for a spring harrow. When the company's representative raised it to $1.35, somebody shouted: "That's the...
¶ At Perry, Iowa, approximately the same prices prevailed at the foreclosure on George Rosander's place when 1,500 of his friends collected to restrict the bidding. The holder of a $2,500 mortgage collected precisely $45.05.
In the leadership of the 35 companies represented in Manhattan last week (their total capital stock: $1,000,000,000). there had been few changes in 1932. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. still spoke for General Motors; Walter P. Chrysler for Chrysler; Alvan Macauley for Packard (and as president of Automobile...
Three days later Grand Champion Texas Special was put on the auction block, in dispirited bidding was sold to Pfaelzer Packing Co. for $1,676.25-$1.25 a lb., lowest price since 1923 when Broadus White Socks brought but 60? a lb.* Before being cut up, Texas Special was taken to...