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...probably will. Opening night the take was $45,000. with tickets at a $27.50 top. Warner Bros. is paying $250,000 for the movie rights. The sheet-music sale on Berlin's songs will bring in another hunk. But This Is The Army should bag most of its take at the box office...
...typewriter by itself." ("I'd no more think of saying that was a swell performance when I come off the stage-but when I finish a piece of writing, I read it over and I say to myself, 'Say, that's a hell of a hunk of writing...
...corporations seem superficially to be making big money, there is more than one reason why stockholders see only a fraction of it. First, up to 72% of 1941 earnings on stockholders' property were taken in Federal corporation taxes (a levy from which bondholders escape scot-free). Another large hunk is often set aside for special reserves. Sometimes the desire to escape excess-profits taxes may be behind these reserves, but no man can tell, until he knows how bad the war and post-war world will be, whether corporations are being too conservative-or not conservative enough...
...Royal Hawaiian Hotel was almost deserted. At Waikiki tourists still lolled about on the abbreviated beach (a good hunk of it was washed out to sea last year), but in houses all over the Honolulu hills housewives were trying to figure out where to put an air-raid shelter. Almost 5,000 volunteers flocked into Queen's Hospital to contribute blood to a blood bank...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...