Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testified to the Congressmen earnestly; begged them not to limit WPA construction projects to $25,000, not to kill the Theatre Project, not to believe that the Workers Alliance could dictate to him, not to cut his administrative cost allowance below 5%. He invited the committee to cross-question him, but when he finished, he got the silent treatment. Mr. Woodrum just said, "Thank you, Colonel, for your appearance," and sent the committee's bill to the printer...
...society and Moe Annenberg made his money selling racing dope. Besides, Dave Stern stands between Annenberg and domination of the morning field. Although the Inquirer's, 370,000 circulation is a good deal larger than the Record's, the paper loses over $500,000 a year, has cost Publisher Annenberg an estimated $2,000,000 since he bought it from the estate of wine-bibbing, fun-loving James Elverson in 1936. Subexecutives have hung little red tags on the copy desk lamps reading "Please turn off when not in use," but Moe Annenberg remains munificent. He spends some...
Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...
Five Came Back, his third job there, cost approximately $230,000, shows clearly that quality is not all a matter of budget digits. A papal knight, in recognition of his Catholic writings which include a biography, Damien the Leper, published in 1937, once-divorced John Farrow is married to Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, last month became the father...
Footing the bills for the Waring five-a-week shows (which started Monday night under a two-year contract) is the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield). Annual cost: some $2,500,000. Of this whopping sum, the air time over 82 NBC stations will cost $37,000 a week, and the Warings will get the rest, $12,000 a week...