Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fowler gives new spin to Barrymore's overadvertised failings by making figures speak louder than words. In his first ten years in Hollywood, Barrymore earned $2,634,500, squandered almost every cent of it. A steady drinker at 14, in his last 40 years-a doctor estimated-Barrymore swallowed "640 barrels of hard stuff." Once, while suffering from extreme fatigue, he tackled a script 56 times, could never recite it through. Otherwise he was seldom at a loss for words. Good Night, Sweet Prince offers many a fresh example of Barrymore's under-the-table talk...
Spurring on inter-House competition in the Fourth War Loan Drive, beginning Tuesday, January 18, will be the prize of a Minute-Man Flag, comparable to the Army-Navy E, to be awarded each month to the civilian House which has 90 per cent or more participation in the buying of bonds and stamps...
Munitions. The Dominion has now become fourth largest producer of munitions among the United Nations. Seventy per cent of her manufacturing plant now working on war orders has produced $6,500,000,000. In World War I the total...
Forty-five per cent of the fifty-six billion dollars used to finance the production of industry in 1943 was supplied by the government, according to a report, "The Financial Situation of Industry after Two Years of War," by Dr. Charles C. Abbott '28, associate professor of Business Economics at the Business School...
...York City); it still waxed in certain sections of the Midwest and West (e.g., Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles). About 1,000.000 people were sick, according to the A.P., but Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the A.M.A., upped the estimate to at least ten per cent of the population. A board of Philadelphia doctors averred that the virus causing this year's mild flu was not a dangerous one; they hedged by adding that this virus might pave the way for more dangerous germs six weeks hence. The Naval Research Laboratory at the University of California (TIME...