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...Hearst's three-month "reconstruction" plan to kill three newspapers, effect other economies. In nine years the Bee News had cost Publisher Hearst nearly $7,000,000. The most expert Hearst tinkering could not save a losing proposition from Nebraska's preference for a home-grown product...
Ridden by heavy taxes and a feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening...
Since 1933 the morning and evening Nashville Tennesseans, relics of the financial empire of Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("Bank on the South") Caldwell. have been operated by a receiver. Last week, on a Nashville sidewalk, the receiver sold the Tennesseans to Nashville's home-grown Financier Paul Maclin Davis, long-time Lea & Caldwell foe. who was sole bidder. Price of the Tennesseans: $850,000. Liabilities...
...while on the other side of this united publishing house the Times-Union's Editor Joseph J. Early also continues in control. An alumnus of both papers like their most famed past editor, Walt Whitman, Publisher Goodfellow will now be in general charge of all Brooklyn's home-grown daily reading matter except that provided by the Citizen (circulation...
...Ring only twice before, once by Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera when it visited there in 1900, once by the itinerant German Grand Opera in 1930. The German company had singers who were either worn out or third-rate. The scenery was shoddy, the orchestra ragged. For its first home-grown Ring, the San Francisco Opera is spending $80,000, importing such peerless Wagnerians as Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Some $40,000 has been invested in scenery alone. There is a horrible, life-like dragon and a special new cloud machine which projects photographs...