Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better physical condition when he left the White House than when he entered it." Only six of the 29 past Presidents were younger than Calvin Coolidge's 60 years when they died, and three of the six died by assassination- Lincoln, Garneld, McKinley. Average life span of the Presidents has been 68.7 years, average period after first assuming otiice 13.3 years...
...Soprano Elsa Alsen and Baritone John Charles Thomas sang. Pianist Josef Hofmann left his inventing* long enough to solo in Rubinstein's D Minor Concerto. But it was not the excellent concert which did most to restore the Auditorium's oldtime pride, nor its own spick & span appearance, nor the announcement of the newly organized Chicago Friends of Music which will undertake to build an outdoor amphitheatre on the lake front for the 1933 World's Fair. More important, the old patrons were back-old Mrs. William Chalmers and Mrs. Joseph G. Coleman, the Ryersons. Swifts...
...York City Col. Jacob Ruppert, whose Third Avenue plant has been kept spic & span through twelve Dry years, was "ready to produce the real stuff on a moment's notice." Other metropolitan breweries?Doelger, Lion, Schaefer, Loewer, Trommer, Piel?began overhauling their plants. Fidelio Brewery advertised its stock for sale with the observation: "Modification of the Volstead Act now seems assured." Conservative Wall Street brokers warned customers that good brewery stock was closely held, that the new issues were highly speculative. At the U. S. Brewers' Academy 22 grown men were attending classes of a technical course which would qualify...
Last week, with the Black Horse Troop in solemn attendance and a group of First Citizens as special guests, the Chicago Historical Society opened to the public its spic & span new $1,000,000 Colonial edifice in Lincoln Park...
...radio salesmeeting over a national network Chairman Walter P. Chrysler told his 75,000 dealers and salesmen that the new Plymouth was base priced at $495, that price reductions averaged $60. Frisco Turnabout. The sprawling St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., which owns rail enough to double-span the distance between Berlin and Bagdad, averted a receivership action two months ago. Last week it performed a turnabout. Its management went to Federal Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris of St. Louis, the judge who gave the Frisco "another chance" in the first action, and told him a tale of depleted cash...