Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major corporation smart enough to operate one of the Oak Ridge atom plants and with a large legal department (not to mention outside counsel paid an annual retainer of $30,000), this was a major boner. Only five days before, the U.S. Treasury had announced that the difference between the market and option price of stocks sold to employes will be taxed as income. (Previously there was no tax on exercising options, only the capital gains tax on resale.) The ruling was based on a Supreme Court decision handed down, effective Feb. 25, 1945, on that date. Up till then...
...Worst Discovery honors with Frank Sinatra; now the Cantabrigian funnymen acclaimed his acting in Thrill of a Romance as the year's Worst Single Performance (male). Eddie Bracken was chosen Most Unamusing Comedian. Oscar Winner Joan Crawford, 38, was acclaimed Oldest Actress, with Joan Bennett, 36, getting honorable mention...
After a lofty resolve to limit advertising to the bare mention of a sponsor's name, radio forgot its good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...
...worried at the charge of snobbery. Class-consciousness, particularly in England, has been so much inflamed nowadays that to mention a nobleman is like mentioning a prostitute 60 years ago. The new prudes say: 'No doubt such people do exist but we would sooner not hear about them.' I reserve the right to deal with the kind of people I know best...
...best thing about Yes is its hard, humorous understanding and worldly wisdom. Playwright Stein ridicules rather than berates the Pétainists, particularly when they try at the end to come over to the winning side. Notably Gallic is her mention of the collaborationist shopkeeper who was dead sure the Germans would win but had kept his assortment of little French, British and U.S. flags-just in case. Miss Stein jabs at obedience ("Obedient people must sooner or later follow a bad leader") and at discipline ("It is the unsuccessful people in the world who want to discipline everybody...