Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weary of a battle that has cost it $4,000,000 in lost revenue this year, ASCAP was glad to sign up for little more than one-third of its original demand (7½% of network commercial revenues). The networks were glad, too. Consulting ASCAP's catalogue before scheduling practically any piece since Stephen Foster has been a troublesome chore. Mutual, which signed up with ASCAP in May, has found since then that nearly half of its most frequently played songs are ASCAP songs...
...people of Italy would be glad enough to see some changes, since their limping economy has for a year showed typical symptoms of wartime inflation. The only staple food of which they can get anything like a normal supply is sugar. Clothes and consumer products are scarce. But these were not the kind of changes that Germany contemplated. Said Dr. Funk: "In this war it is trifling ... if one folk must suffer privation in this or that way. It is decisive only that we make the British blockade unworkable. . . ." It looked as if "economic cooperation" spelled hard times for Italy...
...Flight Lieutenant Roger Hunter. ∙∙ Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported for active duty in Boston, was assigned to public relations work. ∙∙ Private Abner Powell Jr., Joe Louis' sparring partner, arrived at Camp Upton, L.I., sighed happily: "I'm kind of glad to get away from it for a while...
Some substitute post-war markets it already plans to invade: >An aluminum design was submitted for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Alcoa is glad that was not accepted, but plans to bid on many another bridge job after...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all instructors and members of the faculties and their wives from 4 to 6 o'clock on Sunday, November...