Word: jumpier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials secretly thought it was just as well. Quo Vadis still had no final shooting script, some casting and production details were unsettled; with luck, most of the $1,000,000 investment could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even jumpier headache: Judy Garland had flounced off the Annie Get Your Gun lot, and the company had decided to scrap much of some $1,000,000 worth of film and wait until late summer to start the picture all over again with Betty Hutton...
...Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 35,000) had never been healthier. Its staff had never been jumpier. For weeks, in its grubby home on the near North Side, washroom rumors had bubbled up about the paper's impending sale or suspension. Finally Colonel John D. Ames, editor and publisher, called his 200 employees together and told them what was up. Not death but a marriage was in the offing. Last week, the Ridder Bros.' New York Journal of Commerce, oldest (120 years) business paper...