Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standing on a table so the actors could see him. About Arch Oboler are many unmistakable marks of genius. His inspiration is the music of the masters; amid the correct mufti of staid Radio City he sports Hollywood-style polo shirts, violent jackets, unpressed bags; in his atelier he kept a pet horned toad until last weekend it died after overdoing a diet of worms...
...Kept in the dark while negotiations were going on were some 150 News-Telegram employes, all but one of whom at week's end were jobless. Most disgusted of the 149 was Reporter Dave Dryden. Under him the Scripps Spokane Press had folded equally suddenly last spring. Cracked he: "It's the same damn routine-no warning or nothing. I'm getting tired of the Scripps tease. If these sheets keep on folding, they won't have a league left to stand...
Weakest spot in the weakened Hearst empire has for many months been the Chicago Herald & Examiner. Further devitalized by a Newspaper Guild strike, which cost it an estimated $30,000 a week in advertising revenue, the Herex was kept going for two reasons: 1) it accounted for 1,000,000 circulation of Hearst's rich American Weekly; 2) it was one of Chicago's two morning newspapers. Last week the bankers who manage the Hearst finances decided they could no longer carry the Herex. This week it merged with the evening American, leaving...
...Workshop at Harvard (where he studied how to write them), to the New Republic, to Hearst's International, to the old Life. In 1925 his first Broadway success, They Knew What They Wanted, won him the Pulitzer Prize. Versatile, systematic, a prodigious worker (he sometimes kept three jobs going at once), he spent some of his time in Hollywood (which he hated), most of it around the New York theatre. This fall he was to have put on his first play under the banner of Manhattan's new, highly successful Playwrights company, was working on an adaptation...
...Court of Chancery finally decided that Pepsi-Cola belonged to Loft, not to Mr. Guth. Then Phoenix' president, 43-year-old Walter S. Mack Jr., a director of Loft, became president of Pepsi-Cola Co. When he looked into the books which Mr. Guth had previously kept well hidden, he found a thriving business. For the first nine months of 1938 Pepsi-Cola had turned in a net profit of $2,700,000; its stock was selling at $70 a share (it is now $190). (For the same period Loft lost...