Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three months, the Fair had made nothing from operations and was practically ready for receivership. Early in May the two most interested members of its board of management virtually became its receivers: cagey Standard Oil of California Director Philip Halsey Patchin and solid Pacific Gas & Electric President James Byers Black. They fired Director Connick (annual salary: $17,500) and hired*(at no salary) a new director, smart, baldish Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator...
These figures for 164 days of operation do not yet include the month of August (the Fair's,best so far) nor do they show that practically the entire operating profit was made in the last two months of the six accounted for. In 124 days (Aug. 1 to Dec. 2) to go the Fair has a good chance of breaking even...
...Germany, too, has a wired wireless system under way, and adaptation of all People's Radios for wire transmission has already been made obligatory...
...Westbrook Pegler went yah! at the Communists, General Johnson was for letting Europe blow itself up, and Heywood Broun, hitherto a believer in the democratic front, began preaching pure pacifism. Said Eleanor Roosevelt: "Peace may be bought today at too high a cost in the future." The Communist press made itself silly trying to explain what Russia had done...
...fashion magazine which began paying off soon after he started it in 1931, and Esquire, which, started in 1933, became a hit overnight. Esquire's Editor Arnold Gingrich packed it full of cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until it hit 625,000 in December 1937, and that issue carried 155 pages of advertising. Dave Smart and his co-publisher, William Hobart Weintraub, thought they could not miss...