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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim the bantamweight championship in 1886, and troupe later with Bob Fitzsimmons); and he learned the tricks of tunesmithing. This trade paid. In his time he has turned out 28 musical comedies, has written, among his 500 songs, such daisies as Goodbye, My Lady Love, What's the Use of Dreaming?, Central, Give Me Back My Dime. Married seven times, he made-and spent-$1,500,000. Somewhere in France Is the Lily, a World War occasional, brought him $50,000. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, his most-famed favorite, sold 3,000,000 copies, still...
...Alley, for $20,000,000. NAB thought the price too stiff. But since then radio has paid ASCAP some $30,000,000 in license fees (a flat 5% of net receipts on all programs) and sustaining fees, arbitrarily set and ranging from $100 to $15,000 whether the stations use ASCAP music...
...liquor at football games"), president of Princeton University, welcomed undergraduates at the 193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem...
...began operations 55 years ago. Nothing to boast of, however, are the company's net income deficits for seven of the last nine years' operations. Marion's big income comes from the sale of mining shovels and since Depression I the industries that use them have been in the dumps...
...Standard (Pratt & Whitney corporate brother) were turning out all the props business needs without straining capacity and companies like The Sperry Gyroscope Co. had capacity for turning out plenty of instruments for every ship under order. The biggest problem of the industry may be post war: how to make use of its spawning capacity when war orders...