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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delivered at $2 a copy last week was FORTUNE's New York City number, for which 170,000 copies in addition to the regular run of 140,000 had been ordered in advance. In its 248 pages, 23 articles, 179 illustrations were innumerable facts about the world's second largest metropolis, two striking conclusions. The conclusions: 1) many do not enjoy living there, although almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk...
...Lawrence invented it about a decade ago, it was used for the purest sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother, Dr. John Hundale Lawrence, who has a medical degree from Harvard. One of his latest discoveries, announced last week, is that different types of cancer cells assimilate the element phosphorus at different rates. This...
Most big-time radio programs like to take summer vacations because: 1) their performers usually need the rest, 2) radio listening falls off during the summer. Many sponsors this year, to keep the pot boiling during the dog days, are replacing their regular shows with others less expensive, some are giving their time over to try-out shows or sustaining programs, taking advantage of new policies of both NBC and CBS which, under some circumstances, assure vacationing advertisers of their accustomed air spots again, come fall...
...westward flight and a scheduled flight over the northern route was headed east, Pan American's 41-ton Dixie Clipper (Captain Arthur E. La Porte, commanding) was readied at its Port Washington, L. I. base to take off for Lisbon and Marseille via the Azores, on its first regular passenger flight (44 hours).* It was just 20 years to the month since Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic hop. In the seat once reserved for well-loved Will Rogers sat W. J. Eck, assistant vice president of Southern Railway, an engineer...
...hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much as $15,000 a week, Wheeling Steel gets a lot of air advertising for a little. The orchestra men are unionized and get $38 a week each. The other regulars are considered 'amateurs." The veteran Singing Millmen, one a steel-plate "shearman," another a switchman, get $20 each over their regular weekly wage. The hotcha Steele Sisters, a blondy little trio, all 18-year-old high-school girls with relatives in the company, each get $10 a broadcast. Average...