Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read with interest the article concerning Eugene Stefan, the D.P., and how union men went on strike to give his job to another [TIME, Aug. 15]. Omaha, indeed, must be quite a city. No doubt the 300 strikers and Labor Leader Preble must feel rather proud of themselves for having secured the job for a "real American" instead of a foreigner...
There was no doubt that RCA was taking a licking. In Detroit, Grinnell Bros. Music House (with 30 branches) estimated that Columbia's LP records were outselling RCA's 30 to 1. Chicago's leading record dealer, Hudson-Ross, said that the RCA 45 "just hasn't caught on." In other cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have...
...there are some obstacles: the hull actually rests on a barge which keeps the Goldenrod from sinking; the pilothouse teeters over the deck like a tilted crackerbox ("Haven't been up there in ten years"), and the towboat Wenonah has been steam-less so long that rivermen doubt whether she has more than one good whistle left...
...while Lydia bore herself with the aplomb and dignity of one convinced that she had made a significant contribution to humanity. Never did she heed ridicule or doubt the efficacy of her home-brewed remedies-not even when they failed to save the consumptive...
...Romance, Experiences), refused to convert to the new comic format when Fawcett did. Thereupon the bottom dropped out of Macfadden's market: after netting $224,883 in the first quarter of 1949, it reported a second-quarter loss of $11,635. Admitted Macfadden's Dwight Yellen: "No doubt about it-the confession comics have hurt our field...