Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hotel Imperial (Paramount). Sloe-eyed Isa Miranda of Italy, who unfortunately got to Hollywood about ten years after Marlene Dietrich, going through her preliminary workout in a spy melodrama...
Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who loves publicity, last week got plenty. He has lately published a fantastic thriller (The Man Who Killed Hitler) which, he reported, brought him numerous anonymous threats. Last week somebody went too far. Found trussed and gagged 100 miles from his North Hollywood home, Mr. Putnam mystified police with a tale of kidnapping by Nazis: "The two men conversed with each other in German. . . . One of them asked who furnished the information for the book. . . . I told them I didn't know...
Publisher Gannett, a confirmed anti-New Dealer who has also urged doctors to defeat the bill, got no enthusiastic response from the dentists. A few hours later, Dr. Arthur Hastings Merritt, president-elect of the American Dental Association, came out guardedly for the Wagner Bill, was roundly applauded by his dental audience. Although he wanted administration of dental care kept in the hands of dentists, and although he did not advocate free treatment for the well-to-do, Dr. Merritt came out for support of "some form of health insurance-compulsory, voluntary, or both-by a payroll tax to which...
...steel industry that the offer was demoralizing. Youngstown Sheet & Tube allegedly nibbled first, offering Ford a $2 a ton cut. He held out, won a reduction twice as big, added insult to injury by splitting the bone he was throwing seven different ways, so that no plant got more than a sniff of business...
...business to another upturn? And, more philosophically, do price reductions pay when they don't coax new business out of hiding? Meanwhile, the copper industry demonstrated that Henry Ford's low price-big volume doctrine is still worth something. Last week, copper companies, who recently got new orders by cutting prices from 11¼? to 10¼? a Ib. (TIME, May 15), found orders again drying up. So Kennecott Copper Corp., big Guggenheim unit, cut the price to 10? and other companies followed. Result: April's high rate of sales continued. Phelps Dodge's President, Louis...