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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crown Foods, Inc. (40 sandwich stands & six grills) $1,685,000 Greyhound Bus Corp 1,577,000 Streets of Paris $1,465,000 Century News Inc. (guide books & souvenirs) 1,332,000 Eitel. Inc. (Old Heidelberg, Rotisserie, etc.) 1,138,000 College Inn Management, Inc. (Pabst Blue Ribbon Casino) 879,000 Sky ride 757,000 Pay Toilets 728,000 Belgian Village 637,000 Walgreen Co. (2 drug stores) 671,000* Ripley's "Believe...
...planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair and bring the less profitable southern concessions farther north; new contracts with concessionaires so that the Fair can throw out nude shows without fear of damage suits; new and brighter coats of paint on buildings; new lighting effects; cheaper bus fare; all former pay toilets to be free. Calculations were that with 13,000,000 visitors next year the fair could pay its bondholders 100? on the dollar...
...salary (which he voted to up in 1929) was $25,000 and his office force of 17 cost the city $116,730. Candidate LaGuardia recalled that although Mr. McKee had written the Mayor in 1926 that he would attend no more secret conferences on the notorious Equitable Bus franchise deal, a flagrant piece of grafting which did more than anything else to oust Mayor Walker (TIME, June 6, 1932), McKee did later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They...
...prices. Sales of something the railroads sell-passenger transporta-tion-began to fall after the War and they kept right on falling until last year when they were 70% off from 1920. Untrained as merchants, railroadmen believed that the traffic they had lost to the automobile, airplane and bus was lost for good & all; fare-cutting would merely reduce what little passenger revenue they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired gentleman from Kentucky who is generally the voice of the Southern carriers, tested the ancient law of price-cutting...