Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the party have been preparing themselves here this fall for the arduous climb by exercise on a stationary bicycle and tread mill in the Fatigue Laboratory at Harvard. The bicycle will be taken to the mountains. There the pulse rate, respiration, and blood of the men will be studied at various altitudes after and during workouts on the bicycle, and the findings compared with those made here this fall...
...seen no evidence that the holders of private capital are ready to use it. We can't sit around indefinitely waiting for private capital to get going. ... If private industry charges rates socially too high, why shouldn't we compete? . . . We could build very attractive houses at a low rate of interest. We've been paying 3% for money, whereas private financiers have to pay much more. Conceivably we can make an agreement with labor so that we can pay lower rates and offer year round work...
Last week, to Governor Talmadge's great glee, Administrator Hopkins abruptly canceled FERA's 30?-per-hour minimum wage rate for work relief, established last spring after the wind-up of CWA. Frankly admitted was the fact that in some communities the Government has been paying wages higher than private employers for the same work. Hereafter work relief pay will be scaled to community wage rates...
College Rhythm (Paramount). Three years ago, a second-rate vaudeville comedian, worried by a cold audience in Birmingham, Ala., acted on an irrational inspiration. He rushed out of the wings, whined at the master of ceremonies: "Wanna buy a duck...
That idiotic question was the beginning of one of vaudeville's characteristically fabulous success stories. Second-rate Comedian Joe Penner, born Joseph Pinta at Nadgybeck Kereck, Hungary, became almost immediately a first-rate comedian. He got a tour with Paramount Publix stage shows, a contract for 15 Warner Brothers shorts. In the course of the next two years, he had two more inspirations: 1) "You nasty man!" 2) "Don't never do that!" By 1933, all three had become household slogans. Because of his radio popularity, Joe Penner's weekly salary jumped from...