Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash expense at business"; $300 for his wife's pocket money; $1,800 in taxes; $400 to $600 for entertainment; $1,000 to $1,500 for summer "out of town." Add: gifts, tips, Christmas, books ($50-$75), automobile, moving, winter trip, etc., etc. Likely annual deficit...
...Russia, whose modern industrial towns are still only islands in a green sea of wheat and rye, Uzbegs, Georgians, Crimeans, Ukrainians and Russians prepared to march upon the 40,000,000 acres of grain. Despite insufficient snowfalls, which hurt winter wheat, wheat and rye crops though poor in quality were about average in yield. This year for the first time half of Russia's grain was to be harvested by combine, but as by June 11 Pravda and Izvestia reported, only 46% of the combines had received needed repairs. Spare parts were missing, experienced mechanics and drivers lacking, while...
...David Stern's New York Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close...
...brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies, put her in fancy comedy (Smartest Girl in Town, Walking on Air, There Goes the Groom). This winter Cinemactress Sothern made up her pert mind to try something different. In Trade Winds (TIME, Dec. 26), she started her traipse back to earth...
From Vienna (produced by the Refugee Artists Group). One by one, after Anschluss, the members of a young Viennese theatre group called the Wiener kleinkunstbühne found their way to the U. S. as refugees. By last winter they were a unit again, eager to act. Few knew any English, but they plugged away at the language. They had no resources, but they found such sponsors as Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris. Last week they presented their first U. S. revue...