Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a similar increase throughout the U. S. so that other rate-raises may follow. Columbia Broadcasting System, last week denied any general rate raise but admitted "revisions and rearrangements of rates" would start June 1. While checks from advertisers will be fatter, checks to performers will be smaller this summer than any time since the early days of radio. George Engles, director of NBC's artists service, last week said salaries will be cut to "bring entertainment to the public at a price commensurate with present economic conditions...
...earth were to pass through the nucleus of a comet, only a small number of these chunks of matter would hit the Earth, and, at their average velocity of 20 miles per second, the friction of the atmosphere would be sufficient to destroy the smaller chunks entirely, and to diminish the size of the large ones to such an extent that the effect would be largely that of harmless fireworks. However, it is probable that a few large pieces of metal, having diameters as much as a mile long, would reach the Earth and cause considerable damage. As a matter...
...Penn meet last year, Harvard's mile relay team showed unexpected strength to take second place as the Penn quartet equalled the record. Less successful in the medley, the Crimson trackmen took a hard-fought sixth place in this event. Harvard's representation was to be smaller this year than previously...
From the Flames. Tall and purposeful Chancellor Chamberlain faced the world last week resolved to play a role not smaller than that which his brother Austen attempted at Locarno. Today the "Locarno Spirit" of European goodwill is dead, killed by Depression and cremated by the flames of nationalism. Out of these flames (and high tariffs are a fiery essence of nationalism) Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain hopes to extract with honor not only the Empire but the world. Toward the U. S. cold Neville is studiously friendly, never tires of assuring British doubters that U. S. currency is safe & sound...
...five days a week (twice a day) throughout the U. S., the big show in the large cities of the East and South, if the South is not too poor (last year the Big Tent was folded early in Atlanta). Sells-Floto further west, Hagenbeck-Wallace and Barnes in smaller cities and towns...