Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report expects that the present working force will drop as some of the overfull employment is eliminated. Nevertheless, to come up to the report's minimum projection, the U.S. will have to increase its output only 7% in the next four years. Compared to what the U.S. has done in the last six years under forced draft, this seemed small...
Manhattan's Billy Rose also devoted one of his syndicated columns last week to the dullness of financial ads, gave a Rosey example of how they might be done: "AMALGAMATED GOULASH-The Stock That Has Everything! Coming Soon to the Bijou (formerly E. F. Hutton, Inc.) Romance! Mystery! Dividends! Starring Mortimer Schnook, Our Vice President Who Thrilled You in 'Passion on the Curb.' Meaner Than Mason. Creepier Than Karloff. Doors Open 10:00 a.m. $13 a share...
...filed suit for $6,000,000 against Arabian American Oil Co. (owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., which also own Bahrein Petroleum), holder of the vast oil concessions in Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). This sum, said he, was due him for political chores done while he was with Bahrein Petroleum. When a Senate committee perked up its ears at this charge, Jimmy Moffett gladly told his story...
...opens up with his heaviest guns, and sticks by them to the bitter end. In the whole two hours of the film, there is not one instant of bidding in any shabby way for the audience's sympathy. Morally alone, this is a remarkable thing to have done...
...auctioneer will be done by girls, the 'Cliffedwellers announced, in an effort to lure greater throngs to their sale In case of rain, the proceedings will take place in Agassiz Hall...