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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private capitalists such as President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (Manhattan) and Board Chairman Frederick H. Ecker of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped before the committee to suggest, politely, that the Government has gone far enough with low-cost Housing in the rental field, since that is the field (as distinct from the home-owning field) into which large private capital seeking profit might go if encouraged...
...Exchequer, presented the House of Commons with the bill-not for the flight alone, but for British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized. In his low and unemotional voice Sir John admitted that his estimates for the defense budget last April had been wrong. Defense would not cost $3,140,000,000. The bill would run somewhat above $3,650,000,000-a little matter of $510,000,000 more than had been calculated. Since last year's defense budget was $2,000,000,000, this represented an increase...
...name of his firstborn, Ramfis, General Trujillo last week endowed a bed at Brooklyn'sNXursery and Infants' Hospital. Cost: $1,000. *Association for Eating Oysters in Any Month You Want...
...whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied. The Minute Men of 1774-5, was first of a series of nine America's Lost Plays which NBC is putting on (Thursdays, 9 p. m. E. D. S. T.) as "prestige programs" this summer, at a cost of from $1,000 to $2,000 a week...
...keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the electrical superstructure over the rink is scrupulously vacuumed. Among Sonja's skating shoes, of white calf lined with chamois which cost her $45 a pair, and her skates, which are made by John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minn, (sometimes described as "the master skate man of the world"), for about $30, are several supposedly lucky pairs. Despite these precautions, she has taken falls which she believes would have killed a less...