Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falsely, facetiously, "Doubleuxtree! Charlie Ross is found!" There is a Loop story that when the late J. Ogden Armour was in a state of acute financial difficulty, Mr. McCulloch offered him a check for one million dollars. "Thank you, Charlie," said Mr. Armour, "but it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket." Mr. McCulloch lives at No. 936 Lake Shore Drive...
...actual legitimate cost of construction, limited to actual amount of money paid therefor. . . . This automatically dispenses with the proposition that there can be included in these capital accounts lump sum or percentage overheads, for engineering supervision, management, financing, development. Such items cannot and must not be included." One large drop of utility "water" was extracted by Solicitor Russell when, as a working example of what he meant, he struck $500.000 from the capital account of Cumberland River Power Co., a subsidiary of Samuel Insull's Middle West Utilities Co., now seeking a U. S. license to construct a plant...
...seemed the desire to bring new financial power into United Cigar Co. and Tobacco Products Corp., whose earnings were depressed as a result of price lowering of popular brand cigarets to compete with price-cutting chain stores. From a high this year of 27 3/8, United Cigar stock had dropped last week to 15 5/8. Likewise Tobacco Products Corp. experienced a drop, from the year's high of 22 5/8 to a closing last week...
...handle, so, and would pull out this pin. I keep the arm stiff and throw over my head with this motion-" Something tinkled to the floor. By accident the safety pin, loosened unconsciously by young Lieutenant Jovice had fallen out. Brave Lieutenant Jovice knew what to do. "Drop to the floor!" he barked. "It will not explode for five seconds!" He stepped to the window. The courtyard below was filled with other soldiers drilling in the hot sun. To throw the grenade out would kill a dozen men. Gritting his teeth. Lieutenant Jovice held on with both hands, keeping...
Confident of success, Equity has not called upon unionized electricians, operators, cameramen. But these men have devised technical subtleties to express Equity sympathy. They drop heavy tools near apostate Equity actors, tinker with studio machinery, cause intolerable delays...