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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young business of radio, the oldest continuous network commercial program is the Cities Service Concert (age 12), selling motor oil and gasoline. Last week Cities Service signed up for its 13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank...
...Oldest, commonest indicator of the state of U. S. business is the price of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. But while that curve produced at No. 11 Wall Street is almost always eventually right as to trend, at any given moment it is frequently apt to be wrong as a "state of-business" indicator. For stock prices have always had a high emotional content, are given to excesses of excitement or complacency...
This will be the 93rd annual production of the oldest college theatrical organization in America. It opens in Cambridge on March 29, and besides four local stands, will play at Hartford, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Hot Springs, and New York...
...Saint Nicks present a smooth aggressive squad this year, made up entirely of former college greats. Captained by Fred Mosley, former Harvard hockey and football star, the team boasts an undefeated A. A. U. League record in two years of play. At present the St. Nicks oldest amateur ice team in the United States are running for the A. A. U. championship, which would assure them of the opportunity to represent America in the 1940 Olympic Games at Finland...
...ships to get the bugs out of the landing gear. At week's end the ships were restored to service. The mishap, said bland Imperial, was "due to the unusual state ol the airdrome surface, not to a mechanical defect." Nineteen-year-old Croydon is one of the oldest and best-tended air fields on earth...