Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unofficial 1938 titleholder: one Louis Buchalter (alias Lepke): New York racketeer for whose capture the U. S. Attorney-General offers $2,500 reward...
...with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger by the plain old-fashioned method of waggling his fingers; whereupon they dance once more and everything turns out all right...
...union rates, have varied from $103 per month in Manhattan to $39 per month in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Top wage is now $98 per month, bottom wage, $45. By selecting plain, large quarters for rental, by mimeographing catalogues, manuals and books instead of printing them, and in general by going easy on creature comforts, the Project has not only saved money but has avoided artiness so completely that its various units in operation resemble sober workmen's guilds...
When it was announced three weeks ago that Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's contract to broadcast for General Foods would not be renewed for the last quarter of the year, all parties to the agreement were unanimous in denying that Boake Carter's unpopularity with labor and the Government had anything to do with the failure to renew. Last week, when Newscaster Carter made his last broadcast for Post Toasties and Huskies, Announcer Erik Rolf repeated the official explanation-that it had been impossible to buy desirable time on the fall network schedules (TIME...
...close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series to a temporary...