Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City's few good residential sections, in his $125,000 Deal (N.J.) summer home, or in his $100,000 winter home on Biscayne Bay. Doubtless old Frank Hague also...
...Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect TVA and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Brazilian Studies...
...make up the Crimson team are competitively chosen from the membership of the Harvard Yacht Club. From the 45 men who annually spend fall and spring practising in the MIT dingies and the winter hearing speakers and seeing yachting movies, a "managerial board" picks the Crimson yachting team...
...half to one-third the cost of wooden ones. In them Brother Ross was installing 10-inch screen television sets. The price: $249.95, about $50 cheaper than the closest competitive model. Siragusa raised Admiral's 1949 production goal from 400,000 units to 500,000, planned to spend $1,000,000 this month alone in advertising...
Last week, the grand old man resigned as production chief of Fox, now will spend all his time on his 364 theaters. Although Fox President Spyros P. Skouras refused the resignation, it was almost sure to go through. Joe's move was in preparation for a Government antitrust order which is expected to direct Fox to divorce its production and distribution activities from its theater operations...