Word: draining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall has failed to produce anything quite as tempting as Herb's tripes â la mode de Caen. Despite the steady drain of funds caused by the San Francisco operation, Hearst accountants seem wary of swinging their well-honed axes on the late chief's favorite daily. But rumors periodically crop up that the News Call Bulletin, created in 1959 by a merger between the Hearst and Scripps-Howard afternoon papers, may be scheduled for demolition. If that happens, the Examiner will probably switch to afternoon publication. Hearst executives deny the rumors, but since William Randolph Hearst...
...businessmen debated whether the Hanover Fair -or, for that matter, Europe's proliferation of industrial fairs-was really worth the bother. Said Fritz-Aurel Goergen, managing director of exhibiting Henschel (trucks, heavy machinery): "There's probably nobody who doesn't recognize that this is a drain of money, manpower and time that borders on insanity...
...down. Investors started pulling out. During the five months preceding the election, Canada's foreign exchange reserves plummeted $560 million, reaching a crisis low of $1.1 billion-despite Diefenbaker's panicked mid-campaign devaluation and pegging of the dollar to 92½ cents U.S. If the drain had continued an other three or four weeks, Canada conceivably would have become an international bankrupt...
...Tiger and The Typists. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson are in two clever one-acters; the first concerns two self-appointed nonconformists who eat their i own cliches, the second a pair of drab office workers whose entire lives drain away from...
...curtailed the wholesalers and worked all the way back to the manufacturers," said Executive Secretary Harry Moser of the Retail Merchants' Association. "It hurt everybody." And there is no way to ease the pain. All of it, said the publishers, is money "that has gone down the drain. It cannot be recovered...