Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burial. Prices steadied, but on Monday the selling began again. Steel tumbled to 186, General Electric lost 47⅛ points. Tickers again fell nearly three hours behind, and again thousands of new margin calls went out for the money that couldn't be begged or borrowed. Thus came "Black Tuesday...
...Women from the Stone Age to the Mink Age are acutely conscious of money. Most of their waking hours are spent in thinking about it, in planning how they can use it so that it will purchase the most and still leave them a little something for the savings bank ... or the sugar jar on the pantry shelf...
...Clark's audience would dream of putting money in a sugar jar. The women were delegates to the 27th annual convention of the Association of Bank Women, a good cross section of the 5,636 women bank executives...
...letter was signed by B. P. Schulberg who, at 57, had reaped the rewards of a full Hollywood producing career: money, enemies and some impressive credentials. He was the man who discovered Clara Bow, dubbed Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart," helped to form United Artists, produced Wings, which won the first Academy Award. As Paramount's production boss from 1925 to 1932, he had drawn $9,500 a week...
During the last 15 years, while he "gambled my money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some of my friends who are not top executives tell me that doors are closed because I have in my time talked back to some of the big boys...