Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would start in January, that Paramount had taken on the job of making cinema shorts, other films to be televised on the DuMont shows. But DuMont receiving sets are already being offered for sale in Manhattan stores for $395 ($150 to $250 is the reported mass production price). For demonstration they receive RCA's experimental transmissions from the Empire State Building...
...long mulled over the problem of how U. S. pianists and fiddlers who are not headliners can get a chance to play with an orchestra. Conductor Barzin's new American Orchestra, a professional, unionized, 72-man group of players, offered its services to soloists at a minimum price of $1,800 per concert. First taker, who appeared last week in a Carnegie Hall concert with the new group, was U. S. Pianist Frank Bishop. Pianist Bishop played three concertos, broke down in two of them, but at least he had had his night...
...begin he points out what many economists have known for years, but in simpler language, that among the chief defects in our capitalist system which must be remedied if we are to escape abnormally long depression periods is the restriction of production to maintain price. It is of prime importance, he observes, that production be kept going in spite of decreasing returns. Otherwise the closing up of productive units is self-perpetuating, prolonging the depression period...
...Huge inventories of refined products last month forced widespread crude oil price cuts...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-price car, looks like Chrysler, De Soto and Dodge, has a 114 in. wheelbase, longest any Plymouth ever had. Its five Roadkings ($740), eight DeLuxes ($805), all turn up 82 h.p. Catchiest number showing is the convertible coupé, with a top that slides magically into place or back at the twist of a dashboard knob. Secret: intake vacuum power...