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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dancing a jig and forgetfully swallowing the throat wash: "It may seem ironical that a featured singer on a throat remedy radio program [Vick's] must have his throat attended to. ... I am reluctant to say that I am going to have four notes more range and . . . twice the volume...
Same day Lawyer Kutner secured this deposition he went into Federal District Court, filed Promoter Spear's suit for $1,000,000 damages against Papa Dionne, Doctor Dafoe, the Quintuplets' guardians and others. Grounds: breaking a contract & conspiring to break it. Twice the suit was dismissed, but a third amended complaint stuck. Last week counsel for Doc tor Dafoe sought to finish the affair once...
Running in its own cyclical groove, which is about twice as long as that of the general business cycle, the building industry last year recovered to about the 1931 level. Since the peak of the last boom was hit not in 1929 but in the middle 1920s this recovery was spectacular only in comparison with its incredible Depression prostration. F. W. Dodge Corp.'s figure for all types of construction in 1936 in the 37 States east of the Rocky Mountains was $2,675,000,000 as against $1,844,000,000 the year before...
Released last week, the Dodge figures for January 1937 showed that while approaching at an accelerated rate, the long-awaited building boom was still well around the corner. Residential contracts for the month were 20% ahead of December and more than twice the total for January 1936. But it is estimated that only 425,000 new U. S. homes will go up in 1937, barely enough to care for replacements and normal population growth without touching the huge housing deficit accumulated in the last few years. Old England, with less than one-third the population...
With the pickup of the new Ford Carr sextet, twice as good as the V-8, we'll Patrick...