Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morenci, it had allowed its tracks to be torn up and given its right of way to the New York Central. (The owner, a Columbus scrap-metal firm, said it had been ordered out for want of a franchise.) The owners' real object, said the examiner, was to go out of business so that its trackage, bought for only $33,-450 in 1933, could be sold as scrap...
When values go up, up, up, And prices go down, down, down, Robert Hall this season Will show you the reason: Low overhead, Low overhead...
...caught napping. Since Robert Hall Clothes buys most of its fabrics from other mills and hires other manufacturers to make most of its clothes, it could pick up goods cheaply and make bargain deals with suitmakers. Thus it could balance off the slump in its own textile operations and go after the newly price-conscious U.S. consumer. Said Jake Schwab: "We're the A. & P. of the clothing business, and that's what the business needs most right...
...debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your comprehension of the sea affair, you will not let this crux ... go wrong for want of ... destroyers"). The blunt instrument is reserved for extreme use: "Mr. President, with great respect I must tell you that in the long history of the world this is a thing...
There is no philosophical talk about bullfighting in The Brave Bulls until the writer has thoroughly pictured the rawness, depravity and greed that go into it with the bravery. Then he allows a little group of aficionados to say a few things...