Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to meet a deadline on submitting plans for Christmas adornments to the City Manager's office, and therefore will not get the money appropriation Cambridge usually provides for such purposes. Harvard Square will have a meager array of evergreens while Central Square will have an extravaganza...
...done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp., with capital of $20,000,000 (before devaluation), to finance independents for five years. In 13 months of operation, the corporation has about run through its money, is ready to ask Parliament for more...
...personal profit. In the last year, carrying along a band and a bill of vaudeville acts, Comedian Hope has covered 50,000 air miles, 65 cities, collected $1,000,000 from more than 750,000 wide-eyed fans. Cowboy Star Gene Autry spends almost six months a year on money-making one-night stands and rodeo appearances. Recently Jane Russell proved in a 30,000-mile trip that Britain and the Continent will also pay well for a close look at the real thing. (Said the London Times: "She is not shy . . . about her publicity's remarkable claims, knowing...
Poor Adriana did not have her mother's business sense. She liked her work so much that the money was secondary, sometimes gave herself to her customers "out of physical exuberance." At times, she thought about a cute cottage, husband and kids (she had first been seduced by a chauffeur who promised her all that). But she thought just as often about "how I enjoyed love-making and money and the things money can provide...
...life, but Adriana met terror, as she met all adversity, with a forthright philosophy: "I thought how [my baby] would be the child of a murderer and a prostitute; but any man in the world might happen to kill someone and any woman might sell herself for money; and what mattered most of all was that he should have an easy birth and grow up strong and healthy...