Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romance flowers for Mr. Asano and Mrs. Jacoby on board ship for Japan. A grieving widower, he has lost a daughter at Hiroshima; she, a son fighting the Japanese. What seems to make Mrs. Jacoby irresistible to Mr. Asano is that she keeps dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...
...December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat of a strike or higher prices in July, some mills even began to ration short products on an informal basis. Steelmen expect the big demand to run through the second quarter at least, make it the biggest in steel's history...
...just don't know why I am here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written up before he even heard what I had to say. If you want me to come up and testify, listen to me, and then make up your minds." Holifield replied with a maxim oft quoted by Harry Truman: "If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen...
...Phillips keeps a sharp eye on the books of his 100 companies (1958 sales: $39 million), though he admits: "The building stage is the most exciting of all. I can't stand the bookkeeping part. I tell them 'I'll make it and you count...
...make it, Phillips so far has spent or committed $10.9 million on Salton City. Improvement costs are high, but so are profits. On a one-third-acre plot that costs Phillips about $40, he puts in another $400 for development and $600 for promotion. His selling price: $2,000 or more. After a land buyer has paid one-third the cost of his lot, the Phillips organization will provide 100% financing, at 7% interest, to build a house...