Word: current
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After 16 months back among his fellow citizens, from whom he had been removed for eight years by the exaltation of highest public office, Citizen Calvin Coolidge last week began to compose for his fellow citizens a daily message on subjects of current public interest. For this the McClure newspaper syndicate contracted to pay him $200,000. For the privilege of printing "CALVIN COOLIDGE SAYS:" without the syndicate credit line, the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune was willing to pay McClure $150 per day. No ex-President had ever before afforded such a front-page feature...
Guaranty Trust Co. of New York in its survey wrote: "Recent developments do not brighten the outlook for a marked upturn in the early future. . . . With few exceptions current reports continue to point to further recession in industrial output and trade volume...
Less responsible organs of Fascist opinion than Il Popolo egged on the current Italo-French war scare by charging that sums voted by the French Parliament will be "diverted eastward" and spent as a "secret subsidy" on the Army of Jugo-slavia's Dictator-King Alexander, staunch, bantam ally of France...
...Lucky Strike cigarets. Turbulent has been American Tobacco advertising, from its extreme use of the testimonial technique to its famed "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet"-a slogan deplored by conservative advertising men, resented by the candy & sugar industries, rebuked by the Federal Trade Commission. The current American Tobacco Co. campaign, still associating cigarets with slender figures, is built around the catch line of "avoiding that future shadow," pictures trim and athletic youth casting a fat and flaccid middle-aged shadow. Monstrous indeed are the shadows in the Lucky Strike series, almost out of all human proportion...
...stockholders have already bought an additional $45,000,000, there remains some $60,000,000 in which the public may participate. Object of the issue was the raising of cash for improvements in the company's properties, though no specific mention was made of the large recent and current investments in natural gas pipe lines. With the completion of the $118,000,000 financing, Cities Service will have a funded debt of $263,701,793, while funded debt, preferred stock and outstanding minority stock of subsidiaries amounts to $357,082,551. Consolidated assets, however, are approximately...