Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate. On all sides were squabbles, hopes, issues. And then in 48 states men marched to the polls and overwhelmed the New Deal with the greatest majority ever given to a party...
...Hollywood, RKO film studios refused the demand of the Central Casting Bureau that Indian extras who are called on to grunt like Indians be paid, not at the $7.50 daily rate of a silent extra, but at the $25 rate of a speaking extra...
...Professor Matthiessen's. It is a methods particularly adapted to poets of learning and of information. Some readers have indeed hold this opinion for some time; it is encouraging to see it in print, but those readers will be sorry that this book was published or at any rate written before the publication of Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral", a dramatic poem in the full meaning of the term. That poem demonstrated, one may venture to suggest, the virtues and vices of Eliot's poetic method. His dramatic monologues--learned and concentrated and imbued with a strange rhythm--never...
...Motors last week reported nine-month earnings of $114,482,000 against $92,445,000 for the 1934 period. Nine-month sales for the G. M. group totaled 763,406 cars. Brightest members of the General Motors family are Oldsmobile and Pontiac, both selling at about twice their 1934 rate. Neither Buick nor Cadillac has shown much sales increase thus far in 1935 but, in addition to a lower-priced Buick, General Motors is also bringing out a 1936 Cadillac at $1,645-a $700 decrease from the lowest price in the 1935 line...
Ford profits, as usual, remain a mystery. This week Ford Motor Co. is bringing out a cut-rate Lincoln...