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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tickets at post offices or other local Government agencies. Families would eventually get enough tickets to increase their food consumption 50%; i.e., a poor family spending $16 a month for food would get $8 in tickets. There would be no price controls; retailers and wholesalers will get their usual profits, thereby making the plan politically appealing. Details of the scheme were not worked out last week, but it was reported that the Perkins Plan would be tried out first in five or six selected cities...
...their wages to their wives?" The other eight women M.P.s sat up in their seats, the 341 men* took a deep breath as Neville Chamberlain, whose good spouse knows very well that his quarterly Government pay check is $12,500, rose to answer. Said he, somewhat more crisply than usual: "He will...
...Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris apartment to the wild charms of music-hall life; also sad is the change forced on Bert Lahr, who has been transported from his usual garden of foolery to the role of Zaza's faithful partner. Even the erratic foibles of Helen Westley fail to inject a real sparkle into the picture. With a more personable male lead, and a plot just a bit more complicated than its two-sided triangle, "Zaza" might have provided...
Charley Lutz and Chet Legg appear to be Coach Fesler's nominees for the forward posts, and as usual, Homer Peabody will be at center. Lupe Lupien and Sam White are the starting guards. For the Elis, Ken Loeffler will rely on forwards Ben Sullivan and Chuck Kellogg, center Al Stevens, and guards George Page and Tom Erickson to repulse the invasion...
...Beauty for the Asking" is notable chiefly for the presence of a tidy little morsel named Lucille Ball. The young lady, it may be said, is very badly dressed and very good looking. "Farmyard Symphony," the Walt Disney aperitif on the bill, is not so tasty as usual, but adds its share of seasoning to the film menu...