Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extra Miss Rand worked up to a $750-a-week silent film ingenue. When 1929 took her savings she had earned $2,000 weekly in vaudeville. For Recovery she developed her illuminating fan dance. In 1933 and 1934 Businesswoman Beck grossed $6,000 a week (with outside engagements) at Chicago's Century of Progress. Thereafter it was all gravy: movies, contracts, $1,000-a-day appearances at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, $2,500-a-week unveilings at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant...
...tempestuous, highbrowed Jay Catherwood Hormel, president of meat-packing (Geo. A.) Hormel & Co., World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...
...Heaviest instalment buying was in biggish cities; small cities have less, metropolises like New York and Chicago (where fewer families own automobiles) still less. Farm families did least instalment buying...
...Bates, Chicago Didn't Help...
From the Penn locker room came the same general conclusion, when Rae Crowther said, "The experience gained at Yale last week helped a lot up here." And Crowther pointed out that Harvard's games with Bates and Chicago hadn't seasoned the Crimson at all, Saturday was the first time seven of the starting eleven had run up against really hard-hitting, aggressive opposition...