Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-billed "Merchant of Venus," Walter Thornton ran one of the three biggest model agencies in the U.S. He claims to be the discoverer of Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Lizabeth Scott and Arlene Dahl, and the first to use the phrase "pinup girl." He also has shown a talent for getting publicity for Walter Thornton. Of modeling, he once said: "This business gets 1,000% more publicity than it deserves...
...coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar, corn, cattle and lumber. His operations in cotton raising and ginning, sugar-milling, icemaking, distilling, textiles, lumber and cattle provide work for more than 20,000 Nicaraguans. To get his produce to world markets, he has organized a private merchant marine, the Mamenic Line...
...said Bobo, she had not got a dime from her husband since October. Rockefeller's lawyer promptly waved a $2,500 check, endorsed by Bobo, which he said she accepted as a "Christmas gift" to Winthrop Jr., 5, in December. Replied Bobo: even now, a cruel Man hattan merchant was trying to repossess her $100 vacuum cleaner. At week's end hostilities cooled as abruptly as they had flared up. The settlement, to which Bobo agreed "in principle," was handsome-and had plenty of principal: for Bobo, $2,000,000 cash, a $1,000,000 trust fund, plus...
After working on other Arkansas papers, Glasgow joined the New York Herald Tribune as a general assignment reporter, soon became its labor reporter working out of New York. Following a wartime hitch in the Merchant Marine, he returned to his old beat in time to cover the wave of labor troubles and strikes that swept the country in the year following V-J day. In 1947 Glasgow went to Harvard on a Nieman fellowship to study industrial and human relations. "It was," he says, "a reporter's dream, the opportunity to study the background of some of the contemporary...
...London similar indignities were afoot. A thief entered a jewelry store and announced to the bored proprietor, "This is a held-up." As the merchant calmly pushed the desperado out of the store, he said, "Nonsense, I've got not time to waste with hoodlums...