Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Offered a bargain week-end ticket giving $2.25 worth of admission, food and entertainment for $1 to adults, 50? to children...
Responding to the Head Man's fillip, the groggy Fair perked up last week end to produce the largest Saturday crowd to date; 256,253 paid admissions. 55,247 passes. Led by New York City's violent little Mayor LaGuardia, over 70% of the visitors used the $1 bargain tickets...
Triumph for Lilienthal was, on the face of it, defeat for Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Lewis Willkie. It was defeat for Willkie because it was the end of his battle to keep a privately owned public utility on its feet in the Tennessee Valley...
...profanity with the Bible, Shakespeare and law. He spills out figures, dates, technical facts, historical parallels. When the argument grows hot his eyes get hawklike and his stubborn upper lip stiffens. If an opponent wilts under his fire, Willkie is disgusted. He doesn't want the argument to end...
...suit Administration policy; against banks which have increased dividends (from $187,595,000 in 1934 to $221,904,000 in 1937-38) faster than earnings warranted. In December 1934 when commercial banks' deposits amounted to $38,996,340,000, capital stood at $6,151,567,000. At the end of last year when de posits had increased to $44,991,693,000 bank capital stood at only...