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...fleet of vessels was sold for $325,000. including only $28,674 cash. Then the purchasers were given a mail contract worth between $350.000 and $450,000 per annum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Expensive Elephants | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Under the terms of a contract which has just been made with the Cambridge Electric Light Company, the question of a heating plant for Harvard has been settled for at least ten years to come, it was announced at Lehman Hall yesterday. Construction of a tunnel from the plant of the Company at Western Avenue and the Parkway to the foot of DeWolf Street near McKinlock Hall will be started by the University next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEATING PROBLEM SETTLED IN DEAL NEWLY COMPLETED | 10/10/1929 | See Source »

...question depended on the Equity contract clause stating: "The management is not responsible for fire, strikes, or an act of God." Mr. Harris declared the expected MacArthur baby was certainly "an act of God." The protesting actors said it was no such thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Act of God? | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Public Performers | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Bohnen, most currently famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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