Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same kind of audience which listens to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on Sunday afternoons, CBS last month tried out a program called The Pursuit of Happiness. For this show, a half-hour of not-too-spangly Americana designed to balance the ugly weight of war news, it collected a star-spangled cast...
...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...
Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William Thomas Manning presiding. To his audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith...
Some considerable war purchases in the U. S. have been made and kept dark because of the sellers' craving anonymity; most big deals rumored have yet to be signed & sealed. Biggest is the French purchase of South American copper; 25,000 tons a month for six months. If it goes through, the deal will amount to $42,000,000, enrich U. S. coppermen with South American mines. The chief war orders whose existence could be confirmed last week were...
Diamond T: two new (month-old) snub-nosed "cab forward" models, 1½-ton chassis for $775, 2½-ton for $880. Diamond T's 1940 feature: a 100,000 mile or one-year guarantee against mechanical imperfection. Diamond T models range from a $574 1-ton chassis to a 10-ton chassis for $5,000 plus...