Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yardsticks on the Air concluded that most radio advertisers spend a great deal of money competing for an audience which is monopolized by a few popular programs...
...fateful December of 1776, in Williamsburg, Revolutionary capital of Virginia, five students of substance at the College of William & Mary were sufficiently bored with the patriotic hullabaloo to spend their time founding the world's first Greek Letter fraternity. Named Phi Beta Kappa,* it was replete with key, motto, initiation rites and a secret salute. So secret was its salute that the founders, who had described it in their minutes, hastily smudged out the last part of the description, when Lord Cornwallis' troops began to plunder Williamsburg...
...currency (TIME, April 8). This public loss left the Treasury with a public gain of 3,500,000,000 francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...
...three or four years North & South Oil Co. made $2,000,000. Promoter Davis mailed checks for $200,000 to each of the two geologists who had left him flat. Later he sold his oil properties to Magnolia Petroleum Co. for $12,000,000, settled down to spend his fortune. One day in Texas he met an old schoolmate named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result was The Ladder which opened on Broadway in October 1926. Edgar Davis...
...land experiment station at Luling, $1,000,000 in bonuses for his employes, $10,000 for the best painting of a Texas wildflower. According to Edgar Davis' theosophic conception of things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat in the Darst Creek and Buckeye Fields, but brought in no spectacular wells. Promoter Davis traveled less frequently, gave fewer dinner parties, confined himself to quiet bridge games and an occasional...