Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Evening Post story by George Bradshaw on which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton...
...prepared by Lutheran George Linn Kieffer, who died in his Rosedale, L. I. pulpit this spring, the Herald tables were completed by his wife Maude. According to the Kieffers' denominational sources, there are 63,493,036 church members in the land, 837,404 more than last year. Rate of increase was 1.33%, as compared to .71% for population...
...assistant, Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where TWA officials were biting their nails...
...Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets. And while I was voicing my opinions to a companion in the rear seat of an auto the other night, we collided with another car ahead of us-at a rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety...
...Bureau of Mines raised the old bugaboo about the imminent exhaustion of oil & gas. There was enough coal, he said, to last 2,100 years. But the known reserves of natural gas were 30 to 40 trillion cu. ft., of oil 13 billion barrels. At the present rate of consumption the petroleum would be gone in 13 years-but Dr. Fieldner predicted that discoveries of new pools and more efficient production techniques would stretch out the supply for a century. Unless "greater social control" was forthcoming, known supplies of gas would vanish in 20 years...