Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided to speak to the Poles in the same language as they are speaking to us. . . . Our soldiers have been shot at, and since 5:45 we have been shooting back...
Unable to get in the actors' front door, I. A. T. S. E.'s President George Browne two months ago found a back door open. On charges of mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety performers). When Whitehead, supported by A. F. A.'s sentimental President Sophie Tucker, fought back and A. A. A. A. finally withdrew A. F. A.'s charter, Stagehand Browne stepped in, gave Whitehead and his rebels an I. A. T. S. E. charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl...
...night everybody pitched tents and, if the opportunity presented itself, Mr. Rose went off to town. Midway across Wyoming Mr. Rose, finding himself short of funds, organized a little side-trip into Yellowstone Park. For this he collected $4,000 extra. In Portland, Ore., broke again, he asked families back home for a "loan" of $50. Some parents anted up, others said it was the next thing to kidnapping. To molify his charges, who were growing testy, Mr. Rose then trucked them down the coast to Hollywood, presented each girl with a corsage, engaged tables for a Cocoanut Grove dinner...
...copper was up to 10, crude rubber up 2.28 to 18.9, highest since 1937. Next day, permissible limits were hit again. In two days untabulated millions of bushels of wheat changed hands. Brokers saw in World War II a drain down which the U. S. could pour its back-breaking crop surpluses at a handsome profit (except for cotton, no war commodity...
...still, and a quarter of the country's workers were shifted from production to distribution. While U. S. businessmen goggled at the cost-saving possibilities of automatic machinery and scientific mass production, they let distribution grow into a vast, unscientific mushroom. Pennies snipped from production cost climbed back onto the cost of getting goods to the consumer...