Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio receiving set manufacturers sold some 7,150,000 sets, with a retail value of $225,000,000. Last week, on the application of this highly competitive industry, the Federal Trade Commission promulgated its first set of fair-trade rules. Some unfair trade practices proscribed...
Last week he saw one of his pet dreams come true. For 18 years Jimmy Rice tried to persuade the U.S. Government to finance a world's fair of poultry. When the Government began saying no, he organized in 1921 the first world's poultry fair at The Hague. Last week, backed by a $100,000 Federal subsidy, the seventh World's Poultry Congress opened in the great halls of Cleveland's 1936-37 Great Lakes Exposition (left standing for the occasion). It was the biggest convention to be held in the U.S. this year...
...fair-haired, fine-featured young Princess of Wales during George I's reign, Caroline was the first Hanoverian to become popular in England. She quickly realized what her new subjects wanted, and gave it to them. None of her successors has more gracefully gone the approved rounds of gardening, child-rearing, churchgoing, public appearances, patronage of the industries and arts. "This Princess," wrote the observant Voltaire, "was born to encourage...
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...
...they still left him with a big fiscal headache. In twelve weeks attendance totaled some 14,700,000 (including almost 3,500,000 free admissions), about half what he had hoped for. He had forecast a $4,000,000 loss if only 40,000,000 people came to the Fair the first year, a $1,000,000 profit on 50,000,000. With three months to go, it appeared that he would be lucky to get 30,000,000. Tip-off on his Big Show's fiscal status was the market for its $27,829,500 of outstanding...