Word: woodyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Civil War Songs (Tues., 6:30 p.m. CBS) of abolitionists, slaves, election campaigns directed by Musical Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung by Soprano Helen Marshall, Tenor Charles Haywood, Bass Daryll Woodyard, Baritone Hubert Hendrie and a male quartet...
...wheels go round, Psychologist Thorndike two years ago began to test U. S. cities to see which ones were fit for mankind to live in. So important did the Carnegie Corp. consider this study that it gave $100,000 to finance it. Dr. Thorndike and his collaborator, Dr. Ella Woodyard, selected 117 middle-sized cities, gathered data about them on some 120 traits. From these he picked 23 items which he thought most people would agree were attributes of a good town-a low death rate, high per capita expenditures for education, libraries, parks and recreation, rarity of extreme poverty...
Peppermint Press Sirs: The Press would be interested in knowing from TIME more concerning price paid and net investment of Woodyard brothers in their weekly newspapers [TIME, July 9] What percentage of net investment came in the 1934 dividends? The writer's experience has been that every daily newsman at some time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention...
...investment of Woodyard Publications of West Virginia and of New York is $395,000, an average cost of approximately $16.500 per weekly newspaper. Average price paid in Long Island: $10,000. The Brothers Woodyard bought county seat weeklies for as little as $2,900. as much as $29,000 (Fayetteville, W. Va. Tribune). All prices were without receivables. Six months' earnings by Woodyard Publications were a little more than nearly 15% per annum...
Circulations of Woodyard weeklies range from 600 for the Fayetteville Journal to 5,900 for the Fayetteville Tribune In boom times the Spencer Times-Record ran as high as 60 pages, led the U. S. weekly field in display advertising. Current average is about twelve pages. Average staff is two men per paper. The editor-manager-printer is usually a youngster. He is expected to fill his sheet with personal notes and local news, is allowed little syndicated "boiler plate." If news is non-existent he may, in emergency, skip an issue, but must make it up some day because...