Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem, which is also the problem of many another toymaker, is the marked seasonal character of his business. The sales curve starts to climb steeply in October, sinks almost out of sight after Christmas. It takes an enormous amount of capital to keep Lionel Corp. going during its nine lean months. Last May, hampered by lack of capital, with some $296,000 owing to creditors, Lionel Corp. slipped into receivership...
...town. The only specific thing Fesler would like from Santa Claus right now is a tall guard, but such a thing doesn't seem to exist in Cambridge. As it is, the Crimson quintet is hardly recognizable as the aggregation of former years. The seven lean years are over, and the future should show continued improvement...
...usual, lean, immaculate Dr. Valentiner had a sensation to put his show into the news columns. Among the canvases in Detroit was a small self-portrait of Frans Hals, baggy-eyed, slightly disheveled (see cut). It had just been sold by Manhattan's E. & A. Silberman Galleries to Dr. H. Klaus of Minneapolis. Helsingfors, Haarlem, and the Friedsam Collection in the Metropolitan Museum have other versions of the same picture. The last has always been considered the original. Not so, cried Dr. Valentiner last week. The Klaus canvas, he maintained, was the only genuine...
...observed lean, natty B. B. C. Orchestra Conductor Dr. Adrian Boult in Boston last week, ''the 30 or more directors of the various departments of B. B. C. are quite intelligent people. They have quite splendid university degrees, some of them, and they get around a lot. So we really get most of our ideas from each other. We meet, the 30 of us, every day at tea time...
...tour opened in Manhattan. Lean, spidery, baldish but still as spry as ever, Tilden started the evening by beating Lott at singles. At doubles, Lott & Stoefen won the first two sets, the second 16-14. Apparently exhausted, Tilden suddenly came to life, helped his partner Vines pull out the third set, 13-11. What happened then amazed a crowd of 15,000 who were getting ready to go home before midnight. Knowing as well as Promoter O'Brien that a victory for Lott & Stoefen would help the tour's gate receipts, Tilden & Vines suddenly became invincible, smashed through...