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Show Football's Level Of Prosperity On Definite Uptrend NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (U.P) The "prosperity" level of the current cur-rent football season is approximately approxi-mately 20 per cent above last year's the former pea.t according accord-ing to a national survey published today by Ryan and Company, Wall street commisisoners. Joseph Ryan said h-3 atatit;:;ians estimated this season's "prosperity" "prosperi-ty" as about 40 per cent above the big pre-depression season in 1929, and 60 per cent above the 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933 seasons. Football "prosperity," it was explained, comprised aggregate weekly averages for college game gates, incidental public entertainment entertain-ment expenditures, incidental public pub-lic traveling expenditures, incidental inci-dental team traveling expenditures, expendi-tures, and the betting turnover. Five million dollars a week is the average gate his statisticians set for the leading 200 weekly games this season. Last year the average was $3,900,000 and in 1929 it was about $2,950.000. |