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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversial basing-point system." It lowered Birmingham and Chicago prices to a par with Pittsburgh (TIME, July 4). The price cuts caught the public eye, but in the steel world the removal of the old differentials caused a consternation which last week reached epic proportions. Other companies struggled to get into line. Small independents stormed that they could...
Among the many superstitions of big-league baseball players is the belief that the teams in first place on July 4 will win the pennants. Last week Wall Street traders seemingly fought to see which could get the highest batting average before the holiday. As brokers raced from post to post, the ticker day after day fell behind. Volume reached new peaks as the public all over the U. S. began buying. One day, 1,090,000 shares changed hands in the first hour-heaviest trading in nine months. June, which had promised to produce the thinnest trading since...
...about 500 actors a week in 1934, 800 last year, expect to employ about 1,500 this season. Top salary for stars is about $750 a week, but most willingly take much less. Less celebrated Equity members average $40 a week. Authors whose plays are performed in summer theatres get minute fees, because the smaller the gross receipts, the smaller the author's take. Top money-making item of last year's silo stage was Tonight at Eight-Thirty, which took in about $50,000. This year, Yes, My Darling Daughter is likely to do a little better...
Julie Harben was a pale, pretty, South African girl with a bad limp, a big sister and an overwhelming fear of the world. London doctors took care of the limp, a prim precise Londoner married her big sister, but Julie's fear of the world was harder to get rid of. In Julie, Francis Stuart traces the process in a straightforward book that is notable for its characterization of a 15-year-old girl, especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish...
...policewoman in 1911, when she was 27, became New York City's Director of Policewomen in 1925. She has guarded women prisoners from the Tenderloin, kept arrested women from committing suicide, taken care of abandoned babies, investigated dance halls, abortionists, matrimonial agencies, posed as a brothel keeper to get evidence against white slavers. She finds detective stories exasperating, thinks girls who answer matrimonial advertisements are taking a chance of getting murdered, writes sensibly, bluntly, complacently about feminine police work...