Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end came hopeful news. The acknowledged Hattie Carnegie of sack fashions - Vice President Richard Peek of Kansas City's million-dollar Percy Kent Bag Co., which supplies the nation's millers with most of their printed sacks-announced that he had not yet lost a single order because of dark flour...
With the cash, he bought a small winery of his own-primarily as crop insurance. (Frostbitten grapes, unsalable as fresh fruit, are usable for wine-making.) This paid off a few years later when the grape crop was frosted. His winery turned what might have been a half-million-dollar loss into a half-million-dollar profit. Last year he sold out for almost $7,000,000, but did not get out of winemaking...
College dramatics today are not only more of an art than they once were; they are very much more of an industry. At Yale, Wisconsin and Stanford, drama departments boast opulent budgets and even million-dollar playhouses. Yet the most newsworthy and perhaps the most notable of college drama schools-Catholic University's in Washington, D.C.-has a theater that holds just 350 people and a current production budget...
...Joseph R. Sizoo did not want a new church. Sizzled Sizoo: "It is putting thq dollar sign before the cross! I'm not defending brick and mortar. The issue is not, shall St. Nicholas Church be moved - but rather: shall religion retreat!" Dr. Sizoo called his parishioners to a "day of prayer for intercession," took to the air to denounce "the rising tides of secularism." He charged that part of the consistory (33 ministers, deacons and elders) had succumbed to "the lure of material things." "I am reminded," he added, "of what a distinguished Boston judge said when...
...notebook, the great Dane can point to 209 Tristans, 171 Walküres, 143 Tannhäusers, 125 Siegfrieds, 101 Götterdämmerungs and Lohengrins, say when & where he sang them and how much he got paid. Says he: "I have done a quarter of a million dollars worth of Tristans since 1930. Also 3,340 English pounds, 3,200 reichsmarks, 332,000 francs, and 4,000 Danish kroner worth." At $1,000 a performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, he has figured that his profits, after taxes, are 14? on the dollar...