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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half the town) and therefore suspicious of larger operators. He has been credited with the world's largest herd of goats on his 23,000-acre ranch. He has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more. He is making better than 10% on this operation. "If. everyone spent his money like Jack Garner, there wouldn't be any depression," is a crack attributed to Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...class of 1915 will hold its first "fathers and sons" party at the Harvard Club of Boston on Thursday, March 30, at 6:30 P.M. After dinner, Bradford Washburn, '38, will speak on his mountain-climbing expeditions and will show moving pictures taken in Alaska. The cost of the dinner will be $1.50 per person. Information concerning the event may be obtained from Dwight Rudd, 10 Post Office Square, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Of 1915 | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...University estimates that it would cost $80,000 annually to put into effect the wage rate now being asked by cooks and waitresses. That this would have to be paid by the students is obvious if the dining-halls are to retain their self supporting character...

Author: By Charles L. Bigelow, | Title: Dining - Hall Deficit Makes Increase In Food Rates Inevitable Next Year | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miller's Way | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Mechanical cost of each of the four Ring productions is about $2,500. As yet no machinery or stage effect has been devised to make paunchy Tenor Lauritz Melchior or big-womanly Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and the likes of them, resemble the boyish Siegfried, the maidenly Briinnhilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ring Tradition | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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