Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like It Here has one real asset: Refugee Actor Karlweis (Rosalinda, Jacobowsky and the Colonel). His engaging personality and amusing ways reduce what might have been torture to no worse than tedium...
Credits & Surpluses. Premier Soong has held out no prospect save the bitter one of higher taxes and continued shortages. Reparations in kind from Japan will eventually help. But Manchuria, once the white hope of China's reconstruction, has become a liability instead of an asset, thanks to Russian stripping of Japanese-built factories. A $33,000,000 cotton loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank promises to ease the textile situation. Most effective will be UNRRA's $562,000,000 shot in China's economic arm, but this will only start the job of rehabilitation...
Rattling Tongue. But his principal asset is his proficiency at something called scat-a form of singing in which the performer, instead of mouthing words, gushes forth an unintelligible gibberish most closely resembling a spluttering outboard motor. His radio signature is a scat phrase which, written down, looks something like this...
Within minutes after the hero had crossed the last divide, Denver's Mayor Robert W. Speer was out to claim him. Buffalo Bill dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
Hatry pawned his wife's jewels (worth $2,500,000), borrowed from friends, turned his failure into an asset with the slogan "The Man Who Always Pays." Then, to support his new ventures (amalgamations of department stores, steel industries) in a weakening market, Hatry forged a series of municipal bonds, got caught, and went to jail...