Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houston by barge. The first load of 1,200 Fords and Mercurys was picked up at St. Louis by the Commercial Clipper and Commercial Express, two of the latest additions to the Mississippi's growing fleet. Just completed by the St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co. for $500,-ooo each, for the Commercial Barge Lines, these two diesel-powered, screw-driven tows typify the modern fleet that has replaced the oldtime packets...
...Ooo, what I'll do to that wild Hungarian...
...Ooo, what I'll do to that wild barbarian...
...stores, including such potent merchandisers as New York's Bergdorf Goodman, Chicago's Marshall Field and Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, put up $127,000 of the $277,000 capital for Irene, Inc., of which Irene owns 51% of the common stock. Irene promptly plumped down $75,-ooo for a 12,000-square-foot factory in Culver City (four minutes by car from her M-G-M studio headquarters), plus $11,000 more for remodeling. By October she expects to be turning out Irene-designed suits at $185 to $285, street and cocktail dresses...
Tourism looked better & better. Into the Dominion last year flocked some 5,250,000 tourists (plus uncounted millions of transients who stayed less than 24 hours). Most traveled by car, but 715,000 came by train, 340,000 by boat, 310,-ooo by bus, 100,000 by plane. Last week, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics totted up the year's take: $212 million (7% over the previous high in 1929), and all but $5 million from the pockets of U.S. tourists...