Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies which came in at a time when the market was already imperilled by too many second-rate artists. In the boom years Galli-Curci and John McCormack were the big money-making concert singers. They would get 100 engagements a season and they needed no advertising. Phonograph records built up their names, besides earning them royalties which year after year ran over $100,000. Deflation has weeded out second-raters and for the top-notchers the halls are filling up again...
...circulation from 9,000 to 80,000, won his campaign for a bridge across the Delaware River. Across that bridge five years ago Publisher Stern marched into Philadelphia and bought the down-at-heel little Record. Since 1928 Publisher Stern and his able Editor Harry Saylor have built the Record's daily circulation from 100,000 to 150,000, doubled its Sunday circulation...
This building has now been torn down along with a massive 75 foot chimney which for many years stood beside it. The chimney came from the old kitchens in Randall Hall, which was built originally as a subsidiary eating place, later made the college library, and which is now the University Press...
...Hays continued by saying that, "the German revolution is the meanest and most mendacious revolution the world has ever seen; mean because it persecuted the people who are not offering resistance to it; mendacious because its whole program is built on lies." Vander Lubbe, the Dutch defendant who confessed to setting the fire, was assisted by Nazis, if assisted...
...thoroughly convinced of the divine goodness of capitalism, often carries the best account of developments in Washington, for it has no qualms about stating things baldly. Its account reads: "The most vigorous pressure from business convinced officials that to grant it (labor's demand) would wreck the present relationship built up in NRA. Industrialists who made the representations to Hugh S. Johnson came away satisfied." Amazing how "convincing" "vigorous pressure" can be, and so "satisfactory...