Word: shoestringing
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The assets of the Southern Consumers Cooperative, a Negro self-help agency launched on a shoestring in Louisiana, have risen from $25,000 to $200,000 in two years. Harlem's Freedom National Bank, which opened its doors in 1964 with an authentic black hero, Jackie Robinson, as chairman...
Much of the show's popularity was undoubtedly traceable to its carnival aspects. Children, especially, delighted in watching Len Lye's kinetic Flip and 2 Twisters, stood entranced as three giant loops of steel jumped and jiggled for 15 minutes at a time. Adults, too, joined in the...
Necessity rather than sentiment keeps alive another of the Bulletin's traditions--shoestring financing. Socking 17,000 subscribers seven dollars yearly for a subscription, the Bulletin still has only $160,000 to pay all the cost of the 17 issues published each year. With its tiny staff, the magazine manages...
The twelve women--who certainly weren't trying to be controversial--were members of the Civic Center and Clearing House, a tiny organization occupying three upstairs rooms near the State House. It has no paid help, and its director, John W. Putnam '33, pays a fair share of its shoestring...
Among the "knee-bouncing" children's songs they sang were The Lamplighter's Hornpipe, in which Evelyne accompanied Beers's down-home riddle playing with the clackety-clack rhythms of "limberjacks" (a pair of loose-legged, hand-carved puppets), and a square-dance tune in which Martha...