Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they swore by the book, producers of Gone With the Wind were free to make as great a picture as they could, and the film has almost every thing the book has in the way of spectacle, drama, practically endless story and the means to make them bigger and better...
Turnover. The oftener a business can turn over its goods, the better chance it has of profit. One way to check rate of turnover is to divide the gross sales of a firm by the value of its inventory. The first component of TIME'S Index is a similar ratio of turnover. It is obtained by dividing bank debits by bank loans; the result is actually a measure of turnover of borrowed capital...
Victor Emmanuel, unlike the Byllesby interests, believes that butter is better than cannon in dealing with the New Deal. Fortnight ago, he hired a new president for Standard, white-haired, McNuttish-looking Leo Thomas Crowley, since 1934 chairman of FDIC. He hired Mr. Crowley through Washington's No. i Big Money employment office, Jesse Jones's RFC, the same office which placed Mr. Crowley's FDIC predecessor, Jones Protege Walter Cummings (TIME, Nov. 27), who heads Chicago's huge Continental Illinois Bank...
...talking, unquotable except by the page, Tropic of Capricorn would mean plenty to countless men-in-the-street. The "dithyrambic prose" which excited avant-garde blurbists in Tropic of Cancer-and which was frequently tiresome-has been kept in hand by a new sense of structure -a better interplay of narrative and reminiscence...
...time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality by a man in the highest place in an insane asylum or even the suspicion of it brings indignation," is better than a mere laugh; it is, like the whole of the book, as genuine as a thumbprint...