Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just presented the Chamber with the first draft of a new tax bill expected to raise eight billion additional francs per annum, by increasing the taxes on alcohol, business transactions and practically everything else; 2) The franc slipped down last week to 27 to the $1, a new low record for the year. The relative stability of numerous foreign currencies, prompted the harassed Jean to transfer his currency into pounds, gulden, Scandinavian kroner, U. S. dollars...
...chief of the United States Naval Reserve Air Station at Squantum, will be in charge of the course this year. Lieutenant Thomas received the Shift Trophy for Safe Flying, which was recently presented by President Coolidge. He is credited with flying 500 hours without accident last year, the best record in the history of the naval air service...
...drop is evidenced from the attendance of last year, when 331,883 persons passed through the gates. The record figure was attained in 1922, when over 339,000 spectators witnessed the games. The number of games won in early and mid season must also be taken into account...
...early part of the Christmas vacation will be spent in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, where record attendance has been assured. An extra performance has been added in New York later in the season because of the heavy demand for tickets...
Production of motor cars in October established a new high monthly record at above 452,000, and led critics to say that car makers were becoming decidedly overenthusiastic and liable to find themselves with huge unsalable inventories in 1926. Actually, however, motor producers have been watching demand very carefully. Also, the record figure for October was largely due to the tremendous but temporary production of the new Ford model. The old Ford model was discontinued in August, while delays in producing the new model held down the Sep- tember Ford output and created a large accumulation of unfilled Ford orders...