Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: What are these people striking for anyway...
...seemed ridiculous for "Happy" French, a photographer, to keep on working for Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He had found a way to make three times the money in one-tenth the time. Anyway, he was tired of being chased out on all sorts of assignments by "them stupid bastards on the city desk." Said he: "I should be shooting eight-foot hollyhocks." So he walked into Managing Editor Ed Stone's office and quit. P-I staffers threw a party for him, and the management gave him a wrist watch. Even "them stupid bastards" were sorry...
...laudable desire to pay off the old mortgage, i.e., the money spent to expand facilities during the war. When the war ended, companies stopped paying for their plants in installments, charged them off in a lump sum. As most of the cash would have gone to the Government anyway in taxes, this cost them comparatively little. But it lowered profits...
...sudden it looked as if Clarence Hatry was going to try anyway. Chairman Ernest Edkins of Wyman & Sons, one of Britain's largest chain bookstore companies, hastily clucked a warning to stockholders: Hatry was trying to buy up control of the company. Wyman & Sons stock, selling at 53½ shillings, dropped five shillings next day, four more the day after. Hatry denied trying to get control. But if that was what he was up to, the drop in price made it easier to buy any stock he wanted...
...those who insist on going into the business anyway, prime requisites are i) experience "in someone else's successful service station," 2) capital roughly equal to 10% of the hoped-for gross .(for example, $2,670 to gross $20,000-$30,000). Also helpful: sound mechanical knowledge, "an easy, friendly manner in meeting people...