The great American Museum of Natural History last week showed lesser museums a new way of dodging a deficit. The museum has 35 exhibition halls, 500 employes. Frederick Trubee Davison, the American's new president, and George Herbert Sherwood, its harried director, have found that their available $1,600,000 is $123,000 too little. To save $50,000 they did the obviousdischarged help. (Wages had been cut long ago.) Their new trick saved the balance. They closed exhibition halls in rotation, ten at a time, except Saturdays and Sundays when only four will be shut. The visitor...
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