Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss Reichhold and Conductor Krueger hurriedly called a peace meeting with the press-but the boss had one more threat to deliver. Said Reichhold: if reports of dissension within the organization continued, he would withdraw his financial support from the orchestra. He would make up his mind within the next three weeks...
...Chicago grain pits, traders had a nervous eye on the calendar. Exactly a year ago, grain prices had tumbled in the worst shakeout in seven years. Last week traders had more than the calendar to make them nervous. The Department of Agriculture announced that it would not put any acreage restrictions on this year's corn crop. With the market already glutted, that seemed to mean another big crop and still lower prices ahead...
...aware of their ownership. Last year, an aged woman walked into Merrill Lynch's Pittsburgh office with a package of yellowed stock certificates she had found in an old bureau drawer. She thought they were worthless, but had borrowed 30? carfare to go to the office to make sure. The stock was worth...
...make the supply picture worse, the U.S., which had raised 70% of its own wool needs before the war, was now raising only about a third. Sheep ranchers had killed their flocks to cash in on high meat prices until the U.S. sheep population was less than at any time in 82 years...
...cinemoguls have recently pooh-poohed talk of Hollywood's depression (TIME, Dec. 27), and are pointing out instead how well dividends and box-office returns have been holding up. British film bigwigs like J. Arthur Rank and Sir Alexander Korda are also trying to make light of their economic ills, but it has become uncomfortably plain that a major crisis is gripping the industry that turned out such thriving exports as Hamlet and The Red Shoes...