Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the prompting of her manager, and with the aid of her attorney, Miss Belmont grew emotionally upset. She sent a registered letter to a firm known as Harvest House, to which she had once sold a photograph. The letter, which the attorney kindly wrote for her, threatened suit if the firm did not cease using her photograph to advertise a book entitled, The Complete Guide to Bust Culture...
...Firm Backing. Still Niehoff fought on, his resolute face to his foe, his sensitive back to the implacable figure of Ernst Streckenbach, commanding the Nazi 55 Polizei Truppen in Breslau. The Nazis wanted this town held, to tie down the Soviet assault armies yet a few days more, to deny the Russians a good communications hub. They wanted Breslau held to raise the German spirit...
...weeks, WLB had been chafing under firm Fred Vinson's restrictions on fringe awards, wanted him to loosen up, give the board more authority. Last week, as his last official act before becoming Loan Administrator, Vinson handed down a ruling, setting up specific and narrow limits for the granting of such increases. C.I.O. and A.F. of L. promptly howled that the Vinson formula was "completely unworkable," rolled up their sleeves for a shindig. That brought a new figure into the play. Will Davis' place as WLB chairman had been taken by roly-poly, moon-faced Dr. George William...
Other experts doubt that the postwar U.S. can produce $5 billion of the kinds of goods that Russia will require. Starting with U.S. wartime production (the only fairly firm figure in their calculation), they subtract their guess at the U.S. home demand, and subtract again their guess at the demand of other foreign customers. Result: they figure that the U.S. cannot export more than about $2 billion a year to Russia...
Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 43, back with his old law firm since his Army discharge last fall, recalled his grand-slam golfing days by burning up Atlanta's Capital City Country Club course with a five-below-par 65. Urged by fellow Atlantans to enter their $10,000 tournament in April, Bobby said: "I will when I get my game down to the point where the gallery will be safe...