Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre slang, they're handcuffed: an audience which does not applaud; chew the scenery: to rant; flag: curtain; and cakes: the manager pays the actor's board; playing to the gas: a miserably small audience...
Selznick read the synopsis. With the sad fate of So Red the Rose in mind, he was in no hurry to pay $50,000 for another Civil War book, and a first novel to boot. But when Selznick International's Board Chairman John Jay ("Jock") Whitney offered to buy the novel on his own, Selznick, saying, "I'll be damned if you do," closed the deal. Then he took the book on an ocean voyage to Honolulu to see what he had bought...
...Federal Reserve Board reports both figures weekly. Bank debits-the total of all checks cashed-account fairly closely for all the business done in the U. S., for even a cash transaction, such as an employer paying off his workmen with currency, is customarily preceded by drawing a check to obtain the cash. Bank loans are not, of course, a direct measure of inventories [because they are also used for plant expansion, payrolls, etc.], but they are an excellent gauge of the trend of inventories, for businessmen customarily borrow when they lay in larger supplies of raw materials, customarily...
Trade centre turnover and the Federal Reserve Board production index again moved roughly parallel during the next period in which business began to take hope of autumn improvement. But in August the two parted company for the rest of the year, for in that month the production index practically ceased rising; then the sudden impact of war sent it zooming skyward to a November peak (preliminary estimate: 125, well above its recovery high, just equaling its all-time 1929 peak...
...management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing on the trial of Christ; who is a buddy of the Hopson sisters' lawyer, ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings. Pleading ill health, Junta Member Mange resigned as president, board chairman...