Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sub-Deb Dances...
...come from the "right kind" of family, you'll be asked to kick in with some dough for the various sub-deb subscription dances, the minor leagues of the deb party circuit. They're on the dull side, and early, and feature no drinking. House dances are O.K. if you go with some friends, but not many Freshmen do. Girls' college dances are aabout the best fun; the Statler and Copley are the conservatively correct places to go dancing after football games, but they're pretty stuffy...
...planes). The Navy's chief shipbuilder, Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, testified that, despite difficulties, "we have been able to go ahead with our shipbuilding program . . . we are not being held up." He was contradicted next day by Rear Admiral William Rea Furlong, who told the same Senate sub-committee that the shipbuilding program had been seriously held up ("progress has stopped on the procurement of materials that go into the ships"). Two of his examples: U. S. Steel Corp. had postponed construction of a $4,000,000 mill to make Navy steel; subcontractors refused to make 144 anti...
Last year, both U. S. world's fairs lost money, and for the same reason: sub-estimate attendance. This year, both fairs reopened under new management, new policies. Banker Harvey Dow Gibson took over New York's World's Fair of 1940, cut prices and stressed "Fun!! Fun!! Fun!!" at Flushing Flats. Chamber of Commerce President Marshall Dill and Vice President William Monahan took over San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, cut prices and sloganed: "Let's have a good time" at Treasure Island. Last week the Dill slogan looked a little better than...
...York's fair still suffered from sub-estimate attendance. With 9,600,000 paying guests clocked to date, Banker Gibson expected 17,000,000 for the full season, against earlier estimates of 25,000,000 plus. But revenues were bigger than expenses, and bondholders, who watched the 1939 World of Tomorrow wind up leaving them $23,983,000 in the hole, may eventually get back 25 to 35% of their investment (counting interest payments as principal...