Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type fabrics for women's wear. In short, some industries had already gone through their own private recession and were getting back to something like normal. Actually, a good deal of the buying slump had come because manufacturers were using...
...report, plummeted to $2.62. It remained to be seen how much gold Milne's claim would finally yield. But Milne did not seem worried. He gave a cocktail party for 500 guests and expressed the hope that he could soon arrange for "quotation of my shares on the American market...
...other four: Great Western Sugar Co., Holly Sugar Corp., Amalgamated Sugar Co., American Crystal Sugar...
Born. To William Randolph Hearst Jr., 42, balding second of The Chief's five sons, publisher of the New York Journal-American, and third wife Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 29, the Washington Times-Herald's society gossipist ("These Charming People"): their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: William Randolph III. Weight...
Especially pointless is the sluggish little romance between Esther, a former swimming champion who has become a manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float...