Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only 12½?, Hoosiers hated the gadgets because: they kept coming unstuck; they were fair game for forgers; they advertised a man's absence from home to burglars and gossips. Well aware of its increasing calibre as a political liability, the Legislature last week repealed the Gadget Law unanimously...
...Hire-Purchase Act cracks down on many of the sharp practices employed by British sellers on the installment plan, permits buyers who are unable to complete their payments to take back the goods for cash, less a fair reduction for wear & tear...
...also getting a vigorous new chief. Despite the loss of his left arm in the War, Professor Ogilvie drives an automobile, flies a plane, plays a fair golf game. He has never broadcast, but the twelve-year-old eldest of his three sons recently wrote a play which was aired on a Northern Ireland children's program. BBC knows him as the man who persuaded it to broadcast pop concerts for his Belfast students during lunch time. But Director-General Ogilvie comes to BBC at a time when there is talk of spending ?1,000,000 to double Broadcasting...
Taking this at its face value, thin-lipped Cinema Tsar Will Hays replied: "Motion-picture producers, wholesale distributors and leading exhibitors of the nation will generally welcome the prospect of a comprehensive, fair and conclusive endeavor to clarify the application of existing laws to the trade customs inherent in the development of the motion-picture industry...
...Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...