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...shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment to furious applause, turned monologuist on the spot. As a "single" with a flip, fast delivery, he landed a one-week job in a Chicago variety theater, stayed six months. From then on "one triumph led to another and I soon found myself only $4,000 in debt." By 1930 he had reached the top, was playing Broadway's Palace...
Pochapin first tried out his sales plan in Baltimore. ("If a product goes over in Baltimore, it will go over anywhere.") He sold over 225 paintings in a one-week stand, but lost money through heavy promotional expenses. He also discovered that people do not want to buy art from a transient art dealer. So Pochapin rented his Manhattan Hall...
...ordered the one-week furlough now granted to new recruits restored to the old period of two weeks. Family men will need more time to wind up their affairs before going off to camp; by Sept. 1 the furlough is to be three weeks...
...longer dreams. For months ATC has operated in the worst weather of the north subpolar country, has made operation routine. And no north-route flyer smiles as General George foretells the day when Americans may stop over on world trips in hotels on the Arctic icecaps, or make one-week round-trip business runs to Calcutta, Moscow or Chungking...
Reasons for the new system include the reduction of the civilian student body to about 1,000 men, mostly sub-draft Freshmen plus a large number of 4-Fs; a determination not to use the railroads at all; and the fact that there will be a one-week vacation, preceded by reading period and exams, coming right in the middle of the season...