Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of the world's most attractive stamps are issued by governments with one eye cocked at the stamp collector's dollar. Among them: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco. Liechtenstein derives 25% of its total revenue from stamp sales...
...comedians to Lever Bros. For serving as "technical advisers" on their own show, Amos 'n' Andy will get an additional annual fee from CBS. The plan behind this dizzying high finance: Amos 'n' Andy can now look the Collector of Internal Revenue squarely in the eye and declare that the $2,000,000 is subject to a capital gains tax (25%) instead of income...
...George Humphrey, an up & coming lawyer in Saginaw, Mich., caught the eye of Dick Grant, Hanna's general counsel, and joined the company. In 1929, young Humphrey moved into the presidency. Under him, Hanna made money even during the worst years of the depression. Humphrey says: "We only do the obvious." But he has the knack of making money out of the obvious...
...scarce materials became more plentiful, they are now displacing metals in some lines (e.g., toys, 40% of which are now made of plastics). They have become standard materials for flash light cases, radio cabinets, toilet seats, shower curtains, raincoats, furniture coverings, electrical appliances. They have even been tried as eye-catching bathing suits (see cut), but wearers complain that they are clammy and uncomfortable...
...moving on his smallish, crowded set as freely as a dancer. Furniture and whole chunks of set had to be whisked out of the camera's way as it prowled and pried among the players, then replanted as promptly and silently, to meet the camera's turning eye...