Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They were 87 miles from the nearest railroad in the depth of Manitoba's bush. Nevertheless Jack Hammell sold the idea to a Manhattan financier without benefit of facts, figures or engineering reports. An investment of $150,000 cash did not even pay the costs of a thorough survey. Another man sank $400,000 in the Flin Flon, then he too gave up. But Jack Hammell still had the Flin Flon options...
Last week the U. S. Census Bureau completed its 1934 survey of U. S. families, announced without whys & wherefores that for the first time in a decade the U. S. birth rate had ceased to fall. In 1934, 2,158,919 babies were born, an average of 17.1 per 1,000 population...
...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow...
Before starting its film library, the Museum made a countrywide survey to see what response it would get from colleges & museums among whom it plans to circulate films at a nominal cost. For the films which it has already assembled, 179 colleges in 43 states had already asked for showings last week. The Museum hopes to supply 500 in the next two or three years. First sample on its list of two hour programs: "Primitives, especially Melies* trick films and early Edisons, up to The Life of an American Fireman...
After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...