Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, Little blamed the New Englanders for their troubles. Since 1921, he said, no new textile mill has been built in New England and the number of its spindles has been cut more than 75% to 5,000,000. More than a year ago, Little had warned that the plant's output would have to rise but it remained...
...knew that corporations were making record profits, but what was happening to their owners, the stockholders? They, too, were doing better dollarwise, the Department of Commerce reported last week. Totting up July's $498,200,000 of reported dividends, the department found them 10% higher than a year ago. (But it gave no figures on whether the stockholders were getting a bigger percentage of the profits...
...three months ended July 31, the rise in dividends was 8%-from $1,287,100,000 a year ago to $1,392,700,000. Manufacturing led the list with gains of 8% to 20% in everything except food processing, which was up only 3%. Wholesale and retail trade dividends were up 5%, while heat, light, and power dividends fell...
Here & there, the movie has flashes of dramatic vitality and even of authenticity. Samples: the whole look and feel of Cambridge and Harvard, a generation ago; Horace charming a prospective father-in-law and a gaggle of stockbrokers; Mr. Greenstreet breathily declaring his passion for his low-necked, uninterested wife. But the long-suffering friend, inadvertently no doubt, finally becomes absurd and faintly contemptible. It all adds up to a strained, silly show...
...started about two months ago, when shirt-sleeved visitors to the Museum's third floor began giving the mammal-on-a-stick plenty of breathing, and smelling space...