Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business was feeling the faint stirrings of the machine age. Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation's annual $1,768,000,000 na tional advertising budget. This week it marked its golden anniversary with a 472-page special edition summarizing the development of U. S. business as it was recorded in P. I.'s 2,571 preceding issues...
...Reluctantly but unanimously gave final approval to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon's staggering budgetary decision to spend on the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force $1,750,000,000 in a single year. Sir John, ordinarily rated a cold fish and long the highest paid lawyer in England, told the House in a voice shaking with emotion: "Make no mistake-if we do not succeed and the World does not succeed in finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children...
Though he follows international affairs with a lively interest, Composer Strauss is fundamentally a man of old-world tastes. A connoisseur of painting, he prefers, and owns, pictures by El Greco, Rubens, Tintoretto. His favorite reading is history and biography, and he will spend many hours at a stretch poring over formidable, many-volumed records of the past...
...Provincetown, Mass., where some 50 professional artists and hundreds of students regularly spend their summers, two juries, from the same association, one conservative and one modernist, selected no pieces from the work of members. But last week 35 artists decided that was not enough, planned to hold open house all summer, turned their homes into galleries for summer visitors and possible buyers...
Efforts to end this stalemate reached a peak last month just before Congress passed the Lend-Spend bill. A provision in this bill forbidding PWA to build any more power plants in competition with private companies was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...