Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...
...Jackpots. Macy's department store chain hit a record jackpot. It announced sales of $309,213,000 for the year ending May 1, up 9.7% over the previous year. The net was $7,981,000 v. $6,770,000 the year before. May Department Stores Co. reported an even bigger take: $358,013,576 for the year ending January 31 (v. $330,331,868 the year before). But the net of $17,231,481 was down around...
Died. Gertrude Atherton, 90, shockproof, indefatigable novelist and social chronicler; in San Francisco. She scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...
...profit from a hard look at Peony. Here, in a neat economy package, are crammed all the formula-tested and cliche-ripe ingredients for which book-club members seem to have an insatiable appetite. (Peony, a Literary Guild selection, is Miss Buck's tenth book to hit the jackpot with a major book club...
Three students hit the jackpot in the University's store of prizes, netting over $1000 for winning essays in the annual Bowdoin contest, it was announced yesterday...