Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freshness and beauty of these maps, painted in fresco-like colors with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
...Sixty-nine percent of all rural homes have radios, highest sectional percentage, 96%, prevailing on the Pacific Coast, lowest, 53%, in the South. Of the rural radio families, 82.1% have automobiles, 16.5% of them with radios. Some farmers have sets in barns, on tractors and even in backhouses...
...Central States 12.8% of the radios are tuned in Monday to Friday at or before 6 a. m. Latest risers are on the Pacific Coast, where only 3.4% tune in at six. By 9 a. m. 25% of the radios in every U. S. village and farm are blaring; between 12 and 1 p. m. 28.1% are going; at 8:00 p. m. the peak is reached, with 61.7% of all sets in operation. By 10 p. m. most of the listeners are off to bed. But during the average day 89% of all rural U. S. radios have been...
Currently the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association, organized in 1936, is in a frightful row because a nonmember, Shepard Steamship Co., which hauls lumber to the Atlantic Coast, undercuts conference rates to attract return freight rather than send its ships back in ballast...
...smokes nor drinks, begins every stockholders' meeting with prayer, fills his annual report with remarks like: "We believe that to be successful we must build on a foundation of Character." He has also filled his annual reports with solid figures. General Shoe now has 40 retail outlets from coast to coast selling shoes in the $3 to $7.50 class. Its fiscal 1938 earnings were $647,670.15, or $1.27 per share. Current orders are the largest in its history...