Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Comfort Tiffany, head man almost until his death in 1933, intensified his father's love for privacy. When the 37th Street store was built in 1905, Tiffany avoided telling anything about his business even to a banker. He paid $2,000,000 cash for the land, $2,000,000 cash for the building. To this day Tiffany & Co. has never published a financial report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales...
...added that of daily hearing the voice of the radio deride the courage, loyalty and dignity of the English in the forefront of the battle, who cover themselves with glory by resisting alone, after so many betrayals. To the insults of wicked Frenchmen, the British answer with words of comfort, and with acts which rekindle the hope of the other French people of France, of the other French people who are much more numerous than one suspects-all those who listen to the broadcasts of the BBC as if near a wide open window where pure air enters...
Somewhat dashed, the United Lutherans took what comfort they could in the fact that they had at least achieved union with the few (6,000) U. S. and Canadian members of the Icelandic Synod...
...resurrections of old movie scenes. But Paramount intended something else. It wanted to show the inevitable drift toward war during the '30s by skipping from country to country each year, contrasting the opulence at the beginning of the decade with the poverty of the later years, the comfort of the democracies with the misery of the dictatorships, the peace and indifference of the haves with the militant fever of the havenots. The film takes no chances on letting the audience forget the fact that the irresistible note of doom runs through every shot of men marching, men striking...
...rundown old cotton & woolen textile industry, a large auto supplier which is getting huge orders from Army & Navy. (Already Washington is quietly discouraging Detroit from ordering its wool too far in advance.) Another, vital to makers of accessories, is the zinc industry, for which business is too good for comfort. Zincmen like to sell about 600,000 tons a year, at a tariff-protected price. Their present production rate is 748,000 tons, with another 41,000 tons of capacity on the way. But Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson has a hawk's-eye on their price quotations...