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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiastic. Other Episcopalians will make up their minds during the first 13 weeks of the series, for which the money is on hand. If the show is to be continued, an extra 3% will be asked in the Every-Member-Canvass pledges for 1949. The program will cost about $15,000 a week, over $11,000 of it for radio time at regular commercial rates. Musicians, technicians and minor actors will receive regular rates; the stars have volunteered for a fraction of their usual fees...
Jawbreaker. Rats, which eat $2 billion worth of U.S. food and other property annually, can't get through a tough new low-cost plywood ("Protekwood") developed by the U.S. Plywood Corp. The cost (8½? a sq. ft.), said U.S. Plywood, makes Protekwood feasible for rat-proofing on farms and other places where concrete, sheet metal or wire mesh would be too expensive...
Welles finds Soviet Russia "the most wasteful form of society in human history." Economic progress has been made only at staggering cost-including some 15 million lives. The Kremlin, having an absolute monopoly on all business, fixes absurdly low prices on the goods it buys, absurdly high ones on the goods it sells. Thus Russia employs a sort of perverted capitalism-"capitalism gone totalitarian . . . more ruthless than that of any American robber baron...
...Cost Too High...
...order to meet the $5000 cost of last year's Virginia trip, the band found itself forced to solicit money and to draw on its reserves from the previous year...