Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the lowly onion was back with a rush; it was the hottest commodity* on the exchange and had pushed aside such heavily traded commodities as butter & eggs. Hour after hour, shirtsleeved brokers bid high & fast fof November futures, sending the price of a 50-lb. sack up as much as 50? in a day (the maximum permitted). More onions would be traded this month, experts estimated, than in all of 1948, when a record 21,214 carlots changed hands...
...legislation touched off a chorus of howls. Since most of the stations sell three brands of gas, the changes would clutter up the signs so much that the "5? off" come-on would be lost in the welter of neon. Charged Hugh D. Lacy, who heads an association of 96 self-service operators: "Of course, it's the oil lobby's work. We know they did it. We're going to test this law in the courts...
Blue Lagoon (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a British import which might better have been dropped in the South Pacific, where much of it was filmed. Purporting to be a South Sea-romance, it is actually about as long-winded and emotionally fogbound as a Norse saga...
...need to know how much of each kind of employment and production is needed, and how expenditures need to be allocated among various groups of consumer goods and investment categories," he said...
These two albums are varied in style: Ory's band is thinking in terms of a pre-prohibition New Orleans and Davison's in terms of a speak easy Memphis or Chicago. But they are both honest, both pretty much unrehearsed, both happy and medolie. These men are playing around with old friends. When Ory breaks in to ask "How you feeling, Mr. Wilson?", the latter replies with a two-chorus solo that is all the answer required. If you're sick of singing saxophones, try these for a chaser. At present, only Briggs and Briggs and the College Music...