Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flushing, L. I. white children, left while their mothers shop, get a chance to paint murals. Of the total attendance at community centres, more than half is composed of children and adults who actively participate in workshops and classes in local crafts such as Spanish-colonial woodcarving and embroidery in New Mexico. The Project has sent the centres 226 traveling exhibitions...
...West Coast, the Rocky Mountain States, the Midwest, the South, New England and Metropolitan New York (including New Jersey). At a top salary of $3,500 a year, these Directors have supervised the employment of as many as 5,300 artists in 44 States and have authorized a total expenditure of $3,757,000 in 1936, $5,838,000 in 1937 and $4,550,000 in 1938. Artists' wages, determined by the cost of living in each locality and by union rates, have varied from $103 per month in Manhattan to $39 per month in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida...
...relay station for rebroadcasting, or else for wireless telegraph communication. The equally forward-looking FCC is already nursing a headache over the prospective problem of assigning ultra-high-frequency wave lengths when each television station needs a slice of the radio spectrum six times as big as the total band of kilocycles now occupied by all U.S. broadcasting stations. This idea of an ultra-high-frequency transmitter which needs an even larger slice of the radio spectrum should make FCCommissioners scream for aspirin...
...favorite New Deal complaint is that the public utilities are holding back on plant expansion and equipment modernization. Since 1933 the industry has spent some $600,000,000. Critics say potential needs totaled $3,000,000,000. The utilities' argument is that the New Deal's TVA, its Public Utility Holding Company Act, its generally belligerent attitude, have made it next to impossible for utilities to float new security issues. Last week there was evidence to the contrary: investors snapped up $53,000,000 worth of utility bonds, making the month's total more than...
Between 1932 and 1935 the new capital market dried up as thoroughly as a Nebraskan wheat field during a drought- despite the steady drop in money rates. In 1935 U. S. business resumed borrowing, but refunding, not new capital, got most of the play. The year's total was $2,267,000,000. The market's biggest year since 1930 was 1936; but again most of the new money was for refunding...