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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development will cost about $500,000, of which nearly $250,000 will be needed for the tramway alone. The cars will be operated similarly to the Cannon Mountain system at Franconia...
...York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, New York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...
...Duce speaks fluent English. Premier Mussolini rushed forward and pump-handled his guest vigorously, then accompanied him to the palatial Villa Madama. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain a warm welcome. Vivas were chalked on doorsteps...
...Great Man Votes he was given $200,000, John Barrymore and Peter Holden. A superproduction in comparison with Kanin's earlier efforts, it is still a quickie according to normal Hollywood standards. Director Kanin, in his accustomed style, makes capital of its entertainment assets far beyond its cost...
With the aid of 72 collaborators from 16 countries, at a cost of about $265,000 and twelve and a half years of work, Mr. Pope's Institute last year finished-and the Oxford University Press last week published-the first three volumes of a colossal, seven-volume Survey of Persian Art containing 200 color plates, 1,300 collotype pages, some 1,800 drawings. Thus made available to anyone with the price ($210) was the handsomest treatment in print of any art tradition...