Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most familiar habitat of the Hokinson girl was the club meeting, with Madam President on the rostrum (see cut), perhaps telling the girls: "The treasurer wants me to announce that unless some of the members pay their back dues, she will simply lose her mind." In Miss Hokinson's own favorite cartoon, her heroine was telephoning home from the police station with a contrite bulletin: "Albert, I did something wrong on the George Washington Bridge...
...Dart, now 42, Rexall's earnings slipped from $4,048,403 in 1946 to $1,415,869 last year. For the first nine months of this year, Rexall reported a loss of $1,167,125. For the full year, Dart estimated last week, the loss would be cut, though it would still be around $500,000. Said Dart: "We knew that trouble was coming-but we didn't realize it would hit us so fast...
...still in it and he didn't seem to be in danger of being sent to the bench; of Rexall's 13 directors, nine are Rexall employees whom he appointed to the board. President Dart still hopes to boost business with his superstore plan. He has cut the number of Rexall-operated stores from 540 in 1946 to 340, hopes to level off with about 300 in 1950. Said he cheerily: "To those not in the company we look worse and worse. But inside, in the overhead department, we're feeling better and better...
Back in Hollywood for a new film, Summer Stock, Judy found that she was too healthy to squeeze into the clothes fashioned to the studio wardrobe's dummy of her normally 115-lb. figure. She promised to cut down on her health by 15 pounds in time for her first rehearsal...
...Semmelweis was skeptical. His first clue to the real cause was statistics showing that mortality in the First Division ward was much higher than in the others. His second clue-the death of a fellow doctor-paid off. The doctor had cut his finger while dissecting a corpse; a post mortem convinced Semmelweis that his friend had died of childbed fever. "He saw himself dissecting ... He felt his fingers wet with the pus and the fluids of putrefaction. He saw those hands, partly wiped, entering the bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues...