Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cradle of the Cheap GAL REPORTER-Joan Lowell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Joan Lowell, who signed her name to The Cradle of the Deep, one of the best-selling true-story hoaxes of recent years, has rested on her dubious laurels for four years. When her money dwindled, she had to hunt a job. She got one as reporter on a Boston tabloid, the Daily Record. Gal Reporter tells, in ochreous tabloid style, some of her assignments. For tabloid readers who think highly enough of their favorite reading matter to buy it in hook form, Gal Reporter should do nicely. More...
...lobby, she was thrilled. Author Woodward makes Larry a far-from-attractive specimen, tacitly defends himself by intimating that women's tastes are unaccountable. Some of Larry's more honeyed speeches: "Say, dear, give me your coat. . . . Please rise a moment, will you, dear? . . . You golden-voiced gal. . . . How about a little loving?" Evelyn thought he was just irresistible, yielded herself with hardly a struggle. It was not long, however, before she discovered he was a bad number. When he threatened blackmail she shot him. Another woman was arrested. Evelyn got Husband John to take the case...
...Major Franco's followers was Lieut. Joaquin Collar. Last week at Tablada Airdrome, near Seville, Lieut. Collar and Captain Mariano Barberan, bald-pated air hero of the Moroccan war, climbed into a long-snouted Breguet biplane named Cuatro Vientos. Lumbering beneath an enormous fuel load (1,400 gal.) the plane took more than a half-mile run to get off. In an hour it was over the ocean. For a day, a night, and another day the plane roared westward across the Atlantic like a perfectly aimed projectile to the eastern tip of Cuba, settled down at Camaguey, flew...
...against an increase in the normal tax rates, Chairman Harrison proposed a substitute which the committee gladly accepted. The substitute: 1) a 1/10; of 1% tax on the capital worth of corporations; * 2) a 5% tax on corporate dividends withheld at the source of payment; 3) a ½? per gal. added gasoline tax. Chairman Harrison figured his tax plan would raise $7,000,000 more than the required amount...
...gal. In addition the 1932 excise taxes on automobiles, radios, mechanical refrigerators, jewelry, furs, cosmetics, soft drinks, etc. etc. were extended for an additional year to July i, 1935. Total tax: $700,000,000. The capital gains & losses back-door was unnoticed until the Morgan story broke...