Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trade Secrets. An exception to the rule that a player who doesn't graduate from Class D (baseball's lowest) after one or two years will never make a big-leaguer, Sain finally made the grade to Nashville. Then, in 1942, thanks to a wartime pitcher shortage, he found himself in a Boston Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...
...Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...
...little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France, absent from the Atlantic run for eight years, will not make its first trip for three months, it is already sold out until October. The airlines, reinforced with new equipment, are booked solid too; they expect to fly 150,000 tourists abroad at $630 (to London) to $808 (to Rome) round trip...
Furthermore, brokers' own commission rates, now the highest in history, might be an added drag on the market. In a dull market, profits of even a single point had been hard to make. When made, around a third of a point of the profit on a 100-share transaction in a cheap ($10) stock went for buying & selling commissions...