Word: outspending
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...their prosperous native land. "It is the fresh air and sunshine that we like best," gushed buxom, blonde Use Schultz on the beach at Ostia. "It is so wonderful to feel the sun scorching until it hurts." In Italy the Germans outnumber American tourists, though they do not outspend them. They are Europe's No. 1 travelers outside their own borders...
...year ago. The SEC estimated that, on the basis of a new survey, business expansion in 1953 would exceed the record $26.5 billion spent last year. And the Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumers' spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this year plan to outspend 1952 on autos, electrical appliances and houses. Thus encouraged, and with plenty of steel, automakers boosted their week's production to 168,288 cars, the highest in two years. As far as anyone could see, the watchword for the free economy was full speed ahead...
First the Story. Ealing has prospered, says Production Director Sir Michael Balcon, because it has resolutely avoided making "pale imitations of U.S. films." After World War II, several British companies began trying to outspend Hollywood. Ealing decided that its films (average cost: $420,000), if good enough, would make enough money at home, and perhaps find a small extra market in the U.S. Thinking first of the story and director, and last of a star, Balcon found that his pictures, made with no concession to American tastes, were more popular in the U.S. than British-made imitations of the Hollywood...
Money Player. Politicians soon learned to respect her: she could drink, battle, cuss and connive with the best of them, outspend practically all of them. Uvalde's white-browed John Nance Garner became her great & good friend-in & out of smoke-filled rooms, they understood each other. She made quadrennial $25,000 donations to national campaigns, but know-how, not money, worked her up to national committeewoman...