Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his tour, Author Lord sold his "Country Doctor" script to Listerine, also an NBC customer. Swift & Co. protested loudly, threatened to go off the air. Pacified to some extent last week Swift & Co. prepared to hear a few of the Country Doctor's adventures, see how they competed with their own Stebbins Boys...
...State! My State!' My God! Let's hear 'My Country.' What good is your State if your country sinks into the quagmire of ruin...
...company appear, the stock is "tipped," for it is now advantageous to whisper the existence of the pool. The stock is churned over & over, bought & sold to attract attention. When outside buying begins, the pool manager drives up the price by concentrated buying. Outside enthusiasm grows, amateur traders hear a big rise is in prospect. Most pools do not play for large advances but for small profits on large blocks of stock. When the profit in sight seems satisfactory, the pool manager starts selling more than he buys, transactions increase by leaps & bounds. Canny chart readers sell too, for they...
...route to New Brunswick, Canada, Lord Beaverbrook, London newspaper publisher, paused in Manhattan "to hear the news . . . for New York is now the centre of the world." Said he of Great Britain's War debts to the U. S.: "I wouldn't send you a penny. But you'll get your money, I'm afraid." Of England's faith in the U. S.: "Not one there has the least fear or anxiety over the balances here. No one in the remotest degree credits the suggestion that America is going off the gold standard...
Like football fans waiting to hear who will play in the backfield, Manhattan operagoers have been waiting to hear what stars would sing in the Metropolitan's long-debated 1932-33 season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave...