Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when and if effectively established. Co-op rate for 100 kilowatt-hours per month is $5.07; D.E.C. sells 100 kilowatt-hours per month for $3.39. Co-op borrowed $2,000,000 from the Federal Government. It is a fact of irrelevance that D.E.C. paid a little over $2,000,000 in taxes to the Federal Government in 1937. . . . ED MOYLE (A TIME reader...
...insider, and Mr. Hopkins has had time to learn a lot at the knees of Franklin Roosevelt and Jim Farley. Evidence of his political maturity was that he did not stand in the way of special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming these two Roosevelt favorites for not doing better by the home folks...
Last week Frank Masterson looked over his books, then left his father's company to give all his time to his own business. In June, its first full month, Luggage Rental Service catered to 100 clients, broke even, doubled its business each week. Its luggage, bought wholesale, now includes 350 pieces of baggage in various grades and colors. Clients pay a $5 deposit and a two-week (minimum) rate, which ranges from $1.25 to $11 per bag. Sample charge: a women's three-piece set, which sells for $45.85, rents for two weeks for $6. In between trips...
...Skowhegan, Me., to Arden, Del. By last year there were 145. This year, Variety (which callously calls the summer theatre the "straw-hat stage," summer theatre actors "hayfoots" and "silo stagers"), lists 150. The summer theatre's gross is now about $5,000,000 in its annual three-month season. In 1936, Actors Equity Association divided professional summer theatres into Classes A & B, which are the only summer theatres in which Equity members may perform. Class A companies, of which there were 35 last year, 62 this, must have a nucleus of six Equity members at $40-a-week...
...that springtime of U. S. imperialism, Batopilas was a wonderful place to grow up in. The prosperous mines shipped as much as $200,000 worth of bullion a month. The native workmen were contented, friendly, pleased with their steady wages, the company store, the hospital, the electric lights, respectful toward the manager El Patron Grande and his sons, Los Patroncitos. The countryside was beautiful, with orange trees growing within high hacienda walls, with the swift Batopilas rushing beside the house, with ruins left by the Spaniards, who had worked the mines...