Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used to run out to get her fresh cigarettes when her supply ran low...
...some Wall Streeters, last week's drop was more portentous than the actual losses. On the way down, the industrial and railroad averages had broken through their low points of Sept. 27, the last big decline before the pre-election rise. Last May, when both the industrials and rails broke through their previous high marks, followers of the famed Dow theory had proclaimed the "confirmation" of a bull market (TIME, June 14). Now that the same averages had broken through their previous bottoms, did this mean that the bull had been displaced by the bear...
Money in the Sticks. The Messrs. Shubert also went on building or buying control of theaters across the U.S. To fill them, they shrewdly concentrated on operettas, suitable for road shows. They did not depend on the high-priced Broadway casts, but on low-salaried, second-rate singers. The Shuberts often had as many as 20 operettas (The Student Prince, Blossom Time, Maytime, etc.) touring the U.S. In one season they cleared $850,000 on The Student Prince alone...
...boosts, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said last week that factory wages since V-J day had increased an average of 33% an hour and 30% a week but that "rising prices have more than offset the increase." But the New York Times thought BLS had let go a low blow. It thought wages and purchasing power should be compared with those of January, 1941 (the base date of the Little Steel formula). "We find," said the Times, "that while the cost of living has risen 73%, average hourly earnings are up 95%, average weekly earnings...
...line (less than a penny), took care that each scream, each gush of blood, even each sentence, received a line all to itself-and thereby laid the foundation of the clipped, brusque speech of the contemporary thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness. The young J. M. Barrie struggled unsuccessfully to write penny-dreadfuls long before he took refuge in the arms of Peter Pan. Robert Louis Stevenson made the grade with his story, The Sea Cook, which was published as a juvenile thriller under...