Word: offs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
His critics complain that Stern's casualness about facts sometimes carries over into his straight announcing chores. At one Notre Dame football game Stern announced that a player named Zilly was off on an 80-yard run. As the ball carrier passed the five-yard line, Stern discovered that...
U.S. Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Corp., shut down five of its Pittsburgh open-hearth furnaces for lack of orders. In Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. closed one of its blast furnaces. As orders for specialty steels slacked off, Lukens Steel Co. laid off 150 men. This week, for...
Then he ticked off an eleven-point prescription. Sample ingredients: ¶ Require new carriers to fly the mail at no higher rate than pioneers on the same routes.
In a bid for the old glory, Garbo had joined Producer Wanger in a new postwar trend: shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger'...
Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to...