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...president (1931) of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers. "So far as we know," ventures Inventor Putnam, "this is the first attempt to generate alternating current by means of the wind for interconnection with a distribution system."* Engineers are sure that wind-generated electricity will be no costlier than water-generated, may possibly prove cheaper...
...which each week he offers a half-hour of what he calls "socially conscious drama," written and directed by himself. Out of his $4,000, Oboler pays actors (his top: $1,000) and musicians, sometimes spends as much as $3,600 to put a show across. One of these costlier numbers was This Lonely Heart, for which he hired a full symphony orchestra to weave in a bit of Tchaikovsky. Like Clifford Odets, his opposite number in the theatre, Oboler cannot work without music, makes a point of listening to recordings of Beethoven, Moussorgsky, Sibelius and Debussy before settling into...
...Carnegie Hall, bigger and costlier to hire...
...fame has been unjustly eclipsed by his scar-faced successor. Says Asbury: "Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced." Torrio boasted, "I own the police," had uniformed officers guard his costlier liquor shipments. In five years of gang warfare 500 mobsters were assassinated. Sniffed Mayor Big Bill Thompson, "It's all newspaper talk...
...operated irrigation districts in the valley. This Jim Black would not oppose. It would leave P. G. & E. in control of the San Francisco market, which provides 23% of P. G. & E.'s gross. But it would shave P. G. & E.'s profits from this market, since costlier power than Hetch Hetchy's would have to come from P. G. & E.'s own turbines and stand-by plants. Last week P. G. & E. common, a Wall Street blue chip, dropped 1¾ points, hit a new low (31¾) for the year...