Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's three current major stage associations, two can be located instantly. The Theatre Guild, in its 16th year, is enjoying a prosperous maturity of artistic and box office successes. If it has any political classification, it is Dead Centre...
...draw some crooked lines showing where the fluctuations of political sentiment are likely to lead. Then why watch politics exclusively? Instead let us stick to the one formula we all know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...
...Army has spent some $100,000 perfecting the Kruesi Compass, has made it a compact unit which weighs less than 45 lb., fits in a small box. Patent rights are owned by the U. S. Government, manufacturing rights by Fairchild Aviation Corp., which paid Inventor Kruesi a modest advance royalty. Last week the Fairchild factory at Woodside, L. I. was working day & night to fill an Army order for 500 Kruesi Compasses. From this $150,000 order, Inventor Kruesi will receive not one penny. Reason: He is a Government employe, may not profit from Government expenditures...
Berlin, March 19--Promoter Walter Rothenburg has Max Schmeling signed to box Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship and is seeking a site for the bout, but has not been able to come to terms with the champion, he said today...
...India with its untold millions, has been dressed up in splendid clothes and given the proper Kiplingesque tone of magnificent imperialism. For cinematic purposes Miss Loretta Young has been given the vastly expanded role of Clive's wife and though this no doubt brings more fans to the box-office it can hardly be said to add to the strength of the picture. The famous events in the history are told with dramatic force which make the Black Hole and the Battle of Plassey step out of the cold of black and white into vivid animation...