Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence had returned their mounts to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate young U. S. architects would...
...they generally fall is railroad buying. With traffic on the mend the railroads have started to buy rails and equipment in a big way for the first time in years. In the three months through November the railroads ordered 680,000 tons of rails and fastenings. In the same period of 1934 the total was a measly 36,000 tons. Orders continued to pour in last week, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe alone requiring 155,000 tons of rails and fastenings worth $6,135,000, biggest single rail order since...
...convinced," said Engineer Hoover, whose own great days were boom days, "that when we fully understand the economic history of the period of the Twenties, we shall find that the debacle which terminated at the end of another apparently highly prosperous period was largely contributed to by the failure of industry to pass its improvement-through labor-saving devices-on to the consumer...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largely because it never had been investigated before. An original $750,000 appropriation became $1,150,000, and FCC investigators began to find out all there was to know about the monopolistic Bell System. One thing they found out was that over a 22-year period A. T. & T. had earned 10.9% on its long-distance business. Last January A. T. & T. "voluntarily" reduced rates on night and Sunday long-distance calls, knocked $4,000,000 off the U. S. telephone subscribers' annual bill. In September a reduction of rates on calls of more than...
...tracing the silverware in this manner, the 17th century is shown to have a far wider variety than its successors. Often there is an almost medieval air to the articles made in this period...