Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books, then left his father's company to give all his time to his own business. In June, its first full month, Luggage Rental Service catered to 100 clients, broke even, doubled its business each week. Its luggage, bought wholesale, now includes 350 pieces of baggage in various grades and colors. Clients pay a $5 deposit and a two-week (minimum) rate, which ranges from $1.25 to $11 per bag. Sample charge: a women's three-piece set, which sells for $45.85, rents for two weeks for $6. In between trips all bags are sterilized and reconditioned...
...Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery in Berkeley Square (Cedarhurst, L. I.); Madge Evans in Stage Door (Suffern, N. Y.); Jane Wyatt (Coquette, Stage Door, Biography) and Elissa Landi (The Lady Has a Heart) at various resorts...
...years, the vital question of who would play Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth...
...months ago Franklin Roosevelt said he wanted the various systems of bank examinations standardized. Last week from this acorn had sprung an oak: exams were not only unified but the banks' lending policies had been greatly changed by a new extension of New Deal credit control...
That four different systems of examinations-by the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Comptroller of the Currency, and the States-bothered bankers was only one of the reasons the Administration wanted them unified. Of more immediate concern was a belief that the various stiff restrictions on bank investments might explain the fact that today U. S. banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing...