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...decade's most extraordinary theatrical whatnot went into the final frenzy of rehearsals, Producer Rose had a man on a downtown stage practicing a high-dive into a cage of lions and tigers while a swarm of acrobats and jugglers put the last pat of perfection to their acts and a crew of stagehands struggled with a spangled, 40-ft. jack-in-the-box which pops out of something no bigger than a suitcase. In a Brooklyn riding academy, 16 acrobatic dancers were in training for an equestrian ballet. Inside the Hippodrome the enormous stage had been extended...
...would profit Germany to cut the export price on Mercedes cars or whatnot is explained by the fact that the subsidy would be paid in marks of which the German Government will always have plenty, whereas the cars would be paid for in dollars good anywhere on foreign exchange. With these dollars which, like all foreign money possessed by Germans, would be at the Government's disposal, necessary purchases could be made abroad of materials now urgently needed by Realmleader Hitler's fast expanding Army, Navy and Air Force. Last week in Berlin most businessmen agreed that...
...taken in the U. S. every year. The average photographer pays about 35? for an eight-exposure roll of film, another 65? for developing and printing. For $1 or less he gets eight black & white prints of his wife, his children, his friends, his garden, his sailboat, or whatnot...
Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences. He told the Court at length that a great emergency had existed in 1933. He estimated that there were $100,000,000,000 of Government and private gold obligations outstanding. If these had to be paid back in devalued dollars, it would take $169,000,000,000. Cried the Attorney...
...soap in his little Manhattan shop 128 years ago. For three generations the Colgates ruled Colgate, their hegemony ending with the Palmolive-Peet merger in 1928. As late as 1931 the company was selling $90,000,000 worth of Palmolive, Cashmere Bouquet, Octagon soaps, tooth paste, shaving cream and whatnot. But profits dropped from $8,900,000 to a slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates. S. (for Samuel; Bayard Colgate, 36, was elected president, and a management representing stock control stepped in. A quiet, clear-headed great-grandson of the founder, President...