Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with both barrels at U. S. bureaus and agencies, called some of them outright "enemies of conservation." Of the Bureau of Fisheries: "The exhaustion of fish resources has no parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average citizen: "As unconscious of the objectives ... of national planning as Ferdinand the Bull. . . . Both of them just love to smell flowers, but that is as far as they go." And having said...
When famed Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane died on Christmas Day 1936 he left a son, four daughters, around $5,000,000 and an unmatched 39-year record for turning omniscient piffle to profit in his column Today. Last fortnight a new Brisbane byline bobbed up for the first time in the Hearstian New York Mirror. Wrote Seward Brisbane, 24, of an interview with another great...
...Corp., turns out 30,000 pairs of shoes a day, is the fifth largest U. S. shoe manufacturer. Last week a syndicate headed by Smith, Barney & Co. offered 150,000 shares of General Shoe preparatory to listing on the New York Stock Exchange; impressed by the company's record and prospects, investors promptly bid up the new shares to a small premium...
Also on the program is "Off the Record," set in a newspaper office that actually resembles a newspaper office, and concerning the attempt of Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien to reform a criminally inclined youngster, played by Bobby (Dead End) Jordan...
...eldest son Fred won the 50-yard dash in the quad meet in 5.6 seconds and younger son Don took a snappy 50 in the Swimming Carnival race for faculty progeny . . . Jim skinner, of Exeter, swam a 1:02.6 century breastroke against the Yardlings for a new world's record...