Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train Dancer Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk, eat ravenously when a performance is over. Aboard train they will buy anything from ham sandwiches and chocolate to Coca-Cola "widout...
...last fortnight unanimously chose that of Lloyd Lewis, 17, of Plattsburg, Mo. Comedian Cantor excitedly hopped to a long distance telephone, called Lloyd Lewis from class, congratulated him, summoned him to Manhattan. When Winner Lewis arrived last week to collect his scholarship, he delighted Comedian Cantor by making first-rate human interest copy. Big-eared, slick-haired, sloe-eyed, and looking not un like his benefactor, Lloyd told how he had written his essay between chores on his father's 100-acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair," how at first...
Venice in the 18th Century was supposed to be Europe's No. I good-time town. Actually it was a dirty, provincial, poverty-stricken backwater whose magnificent buildings, heirlooms of a great past, looked down once a year on a second-rate carnival. The rest of the year Venetian amusements were penny-pinching, snuff-taking, gambling and adultery for the 40 ruling families. Venice's maritime power and the Mediterranean's role as the world's central sea had been ended by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to the Orient. A declining...
...could get, put them on exhibition beside the works of another, long-forgotten Pennsylvanian, Joseph Boggs ("The Professor") Beale, whose lively drawings were lately discovered in the attic of a onetime Philadelphia lantern-slide maker (TIME, Aug. 19). Critics mentioned Brouwer and Hogarth, acclaimed David Blythe as a first-rate U. S. genre painter...
...Credit Administration. Unlike Home Owners' Loan Corp. bonds, Land Bank bonds are not Government-guaranteed. All recent Land Bank issues have been sold to refund outstanding bonds with higher coupons. And since by law the Land Banks may charge borrowers no more than 1% in excess of the rate at which they themselves are able to borrow, Mr. Dunn as the farmers' Wall Street agent is now providing mortgage money...