Word: good
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated-normal or bumper crops of almost everything. BAE estimated the winter wheat crop at a whopping 1,019,686,000 bu., well over last year's 990,098,000, and second only to 1947's record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau predicted, farm income might drop 10% below last year's record of $31 billion...
...broadcaster to get rich quick and his stockholders should get that straight.* He was facing them at the first annual meeting since his privately owned ABC had sold 500,000 shares of stock to the public last year, partly to get capital for TV expansion. Noble had some good news: ABC's program ratings and sales were both on the rise. But, he said, the cost of getting ABC established in TV means that the stockholders, who have had no dividends yet, are unlikely to get any this year or next. What, asked one stockholder, was the long-range...
...started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
Most station owners found cold comfort in being told that radio was doing a good job of nursing and fattening its own assassin. The nation's 50 TV stations (mostly supported by radio) lost $15 million in 1948. While it was being suckled by radio, TV was taking a larger & larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned...
...home; the grey, frayed hopelessness of his hard-working parents (admirably played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with the crude guns they have been secretly making at their work benches) defy, bully and finally terrorize their teacher...