Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a big list of backers,* Parton had bought eight community sheets and shopping guides, then merged them into one citywide newspaper with sub-editions for each major suburb. Eventually he had hoped to convert the Independent into a daily. But advertising had come in too slowly, and Publisher Parton had stretched his financial shoestring too far and too fast. In cash and credit, he had spent $600,000. Said Parton: "Our war chest was too small...
...schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded in their tumbledown sub urban "locations" or moving through the rolling South African countryside...
...University of Alaska will be a harder problem. Since its founding in 1922, it has been battling an annual invasion of summer mosquitoes, sub-zero winter temperatures and a chronic shortage of money. Nevertheless, with Founder Bunnell pushing determinedly ahead, the university has grown until it now has 698 part-and full-time students and a 42-man faculty. It has become a center for Arctic research, a training ground for mining engineers, a clearinghouse of information for farmers and prospectors...
...where 132 lbs. is the maximum weight a race horse is required to carry, all-conquering Calumet Farm got ready to hear the cash register ring. It was different there from Belmont Park, N.Y., where last month the handicapper tried to put 138 Ibs. on Coaltown in the rich Sub urban Handicap - and Calumet refused to run him. At Arlington Park last week, carrying 132, Coaltown got his nose in front momentarily in the $27,800 Equipoise Mile. After that, he looked like just an other horse as he took a three-length trouncing from Star Reward, running and free...
...private housing program ever stirred up such a furor in Washington as Lustron Corp.'s plan to build 150 enameled steel houses a day-if the Government would put up the money. After some squabbling, RFC obliged. Last week, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, whose Banking & Currency Sub-committee was digging into RFC's affairs, popped an interesting question: Did people want to live in steel houses? "I have only seen one of them," said Fulbright, "but it sort of reminds you of a bathtub...