Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current bad market, it would probably bring in only half the money T.W.A., needed). T.W.A.'s best hope of getting $40,000,000 seemed to be to get it from RFC. And RFC stuck to its previous decision (TIME, Jan. 6) not to lend T.W.A. a cent until Hughes agreed to put his stock into a voting trust. If Hughes balked at that the battle would be on again...
Talk for Hepcats. It was quite a "sack of jack," Robbins conceded, for the law graduate who seven years ago took an an-.. nouncing job with Baltimore's WITH at $17.50 a week. And every cent of it had been hard-earned. Like Walter Winchell and the late Damon Runyon, Robbins had almost singlehanded created his own "language," and built his audience by teaching it to them (see box). He started with a few scattered scat idioms picked up from jazzmen, rapidly invented new ones on principles of alliteration, assonance and (occasionally) metaphor...
...Steel Frame." From New Delhi, TIME Correspondent Robert Neville reported: "The British position in India is weakening so fast that in a few months' time the British will be unable to impose their will here a day longer, leaving Congress sitting pretty. Eighty-five per cent of the British personnel of the Indian Civil Service have indicated their intention of leaving soon, and 80% of the British officers of the Indian Army are leaving...
...made him more aware than most men of the nearness of death. He owned not a hair on Terry's head, and if he died his wife would get not a cent of Terry's future income. Like nearly every trained seal in his line, he was held prisoner by the "shop rights" system. Its major premise: comic strips are owned, not by their creators, but by the syndicates that sell them...
Lack of the respiratory disease epidemics which have cropped up in other years has diminished the immediate need for extra space, added Dr. Bock, observing that the list of winter illnesses is less than 40 per cent of the pre-war rate. An average day sees 35 students in residence at the Infirmary...