Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time charges for what might have been an additional broadcasting hour, came out with a profit on the flat rate Buick paid for the fight, the 15 minutes of time sold. Buick lost the potential advertising mentions planned at three or four round intervals, put on the air the longer opening and closing announcements. These totaled three minutes and 48 seconds of air time, 108 seconds over NBC's advertising average for 15-minute broadcast...
...Loans are reclassified as I, II, III, IV, instead of "slow," "doubtful," and "loss," and bankers may make sound commercial loans for longer than nine months without the loans being criticized by examiners as "slow...
...Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...
...twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from anywhere to go to Spain through its territory. Meantime, the Spanish Rightist Army advanced ten miles down the coast toward Valencia from recently captured Castellon de la Plana. met stiff resistance at Villareal. At week's end the Rightists held 131,000 square miles...
...much a misnomer, with Woolworth and Kresge selling items up to $1. But in England "three & six penny'' still has some semblance of accuracy. Woolworth's, which opened its first English store in 1909 and last year had 711 with profit of $32,000,000. no longer adheres to the strict price policy. But its biggest rival, the 228 Marks & Spencer stores which earned just over $8,000,000 in 1937, still does...