Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante). As members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the 250 station representatives last week agreed in principle to President Weber's demands, offered to hire 3,000 more musicians than at present and, for two years at least, spend $3,000,000 on music each year. President Weber was thought likely to accept the offer...
...interest the A. F. of M.; some 350 are independent stations which have declined to deal collectively with President Weber; the rest are affiliates of the three networks which will bear the whole burden of increasing musicians' pay. These, in addition to what they now spend for music, will be obliged under the N. A. B. plan to find the extra $1,500,000 for Joe Weber's men by chipping in, in proportion to their financial resources. Each must earmark for music next year the equivalent of 5.49% of gross income during the year which ended last...
...bars, wearing at the Garden's special behest the widest hats and brightest shirts they could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total prize money ($38,000), augmented this year by the entry fees in all events...
...University librarians could spend half an hour in the Farnsworth Room, they might learn the way to stop the current undergraduate discontent about Widener. It will not come through abolishing catalogues or throwing the stacks open to all comers, although some modifications of the stack rule does seem in order. It will not come through any procedures which would prove in efficient in a large library. It can only come through a basic change in the library's attitude toward the undergraduate. Until the latter feels that the library is his, that attendants are there to help and not restrict...
...thus, without benedictions, that the Vagabond, who, alas, spent yesterday in sloth and who will spend today in feverish retribution therefor, directs, as a modern Messiah, his followers out of the wilderness of worldly college life to the basement lecture room of Fogg Museum tomorrow at noon. There Professor Kirsop Lake, who knows Palestine as intimately as Winchell knows his Broadway, will read the Bible as it should be read and talk of it as it should be talked of, interpreting its grandeur with alternate wisdom, emotion, and humor...