Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defeat. This is Merman's second try at radio. Back in 1935, she went on the air with a program broadcast at the same time as Major Bowes' Amateur Hour and went off, defeated, twelve weeks later. She is leery of television: "I did two shows with Milton Berle. On both of them he had horses in the act - and everything that goes with horses. We were so cramped backstage that I had only a screen for costume changes and an electrician practically held a light over me while I changed." She added reflectively: "There must...
...Liberalizing the "carry-back" and "carry-forward" tax provisions which enable businessmen to cut their business losses...
...only "a small sampling," and he could not "hazard a guess as to the entire extent of fraud and overpayment" in some $300 billion of war contracts. Even so, it was "a shocking situation." In some instances, said Warren, 20% of the contract price had been 'kicked back" to Government officials, 'either directly, through their relatives, or through dummy corporations" owned by the Government officials. Other sample cases...
...prove his point, Dobbs bought an airport restaurant back home in Memphis. Before long, his reputation for tasty, packaged plane meals enabled him to branch out to airports in 21 other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...
When Toddle Houses located competing restaurants near Dobbs Houses and started a price war, Jimmy Dobbs hammered back. He rounded up the smelliest bums he could find and sent them to Toddle Houses to eat during rush hours. By 1941, Toddle Houses had enough. It bought the 46 Dobbs Houses for $500,000. Hull decided to concentrate on car selling (the company will gross more than $50 million this year, net $2,500,000), and Dobbs moved into the airports...