Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glossy, million-dollar exports Parliament knew quite well. But canny Britishers knew equally well that if Hollywood had to make between 75 and 150 quota pictures annually in the British Isles at a minimum cost of $75,000 each, it would undoubtedly find it good business to spend enough extra to insure a world-wide return on its investment...
Last week Arnaud Marts consented to be Bucknell's president-for weekends. He will spend half the week in his Manhattan offices, each Wednesday night will entrain for Lewisburg to lead Bucknell for the rest of the week...
...radio station in the land, the National Association of Broadcasters picked a man named Mark Foster Ethridge as president. But despite the inevitable newspaper headlines, no Tsar is Mark Ethridge. He is general manager of the Bingham papers in Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-and he will spend more time in Louisville than he will in Washington. He took pains to make it clear last week that the N. A. B. will continue to be a trade association and nothing else. The radio industry is afflicted with various forms of static-incredibly complicated radio unions are fermenting, musicians...
...Todd found that Chicagoans spend slightly more than $30,000,000, or $10 per capita, for public recreation; $250,000,000, or $80 per capita, for commercial amusements. High lights of his investigations...
...companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water harbor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...