Word: half
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...
...Wind as a starter, Selznick, Howard and George Cukor (to supply the director's angle) spent twelve hours of a series of hot summer days, hammering out G With the W Script No. i. When finished, it contained 30,000 words, would have required five and a half hours to run if it ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least...
...writers studying industrial trends, new businesses, new professions, the 22,000 ways to make a living in the U. S. Their findings are published in a monthly magazine, Vocational Trends, and pamphlets, are sold (cost of complete service: $17.50 a year) to CCC camps, 4,500 high schools, half the U. S. colleges and universities. Some findings...
...Biggest factor in getting and keeping a job is oomph: at least half of the men & women who lose jobs (except in Depression layoffs) are fired for maladjusted personalities...
...staying around $1 were helped by news from Argentina that the wheat crop there was also in bad shape. Reason: late spring frosts. November in the Argentine is the equivalent of May in the U. S. Argentina's expected harvest is around 160,000,000 bushels, less than half of last year's crop...