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...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
...could be raised (he wanted $100,000)? How much admission should be charged? Last week, with both questions answered, Mr. Johnson made public his ideas for the Chicago Grand Opera Company. He had a conductor, prices, preliminary plans. There was only one possible hitch: would San Carlo, whose Auditorium contract lasts as long as weekly receipts run above a "certain figure" (not divulged), be ready to leave by Nov. 20 when Mr. Johnson hoped to move in? Mr. Johnson would have his Grand Opera run for ten weeks. On the dais will be a slim little...
...suggestive of an old-fashioned remedy, so they painted out the signs, discarded the slogan, went in for radio advertising. It worked. A short morning program in 1932 started sales up a bit. An afternoon series of dramatic sketches, called "Pages of Romance," sent them still higher. The contract with Albert Spalding makes Castoria one of radio's first-rank advertisers. Its programs, to be given Wednesday evenings from 8:30 to 9 E. S. T. starting Oct. 4, will have orchestra music led by Don Voorhees, three baritone solos by Conrad Thibault, three violin solos by Spalding...
...license. Riders who know him well suspect that he is really two years younger. Like his brother William, who died of injuries after a fall at Agua Caliente last year, Jack Westrope could ride as soon as he could walk. He went to Florida last winter as contract rider for a Texan named Oscar Foster. By the time Foster, who lives wherever he happens to be racing his string of horses, moved to Chicago for the Hawthorne meeting in August, Westrope had ridden more than 150 winners, established himself as No. 1 jockey of the season. Jockey Westrope rides with...
...Soviet Army's stratostat U.S.S.R., largest balloon ever made, was finally ready last week in Moscow for a flight to the stratosphere. A morning fog had weighted the turnip-shaped gasbag with a heavy load of moisture; a drop in temperature had caused the hydrogen to contract. Nevertheless the crew of three aeronauts and two 'chute jumpers sealed themselves in the spherical gondola for a takeoff. W^ith a dramatic flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome...