Word: size
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fixed at $52,000 the size of any WPA building project...
Last fortnight in Manhattan observers looked sharp at a promising cheap-book experiment. It was called "Pocket Books," consisted of ten former bestsellers, printed in full-size type on good paper, with washable paper binding. Priced at 25?, Pocket Books were the best-looking, most readable paperbound books so far. Promising also was the publisher. tall, dynamic, 44-year-old Robert Fair de Graff...
Before the true size and nature of this rabbit could be assimilated by Congressional minds, Mr. Roosevelt further announced his appointment of Jesse Holman Jones to head the new Federal Loan Agency and of John Michael Carmody to head the new Federal Works Agency. Mr. Jones's translation from Reconstruction Finance Corp. was scarcely unexpected, but quick reference to the President's great new scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional...
...Patterson had talked to Lord Northcliffe, whose London Daily Mirror, a half-size picture paper, was selling nearly 1,000,000 copies daily. Northcliffe suggested that he try out the tabloid idea in the U. S. Captain Patterson met Colonel McCormick somewhere behind the lines; they dined with some other officers, then stepped outside and seated themselves on the dung heap...
...specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht himself; now he is a partner of the Manhattan banking firm of Lazard Freres...