Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a long strike, the bills for Schleppey's services have given some publishers heavy deficits. It took Schleppey several months to break the back of the I.T.U. strike at the Grand Junction (Colo.) Sentinel, and an ex-bookkeeper for the paper recalls: "I used red ink for a long, long time." In the solidly unionized city of Haverhill, the I.T.U. is fighting back by urging subscribers and advertisers to boycott the Gazette; circulation (11,000) is down 45% and ads are down 40% from pre-strike levels. To make matters worse for the Gazette, Publisher William Loeb...
...escape of La Grande Jatte, Rich owed thanks to Fellow Director d'Harnoncourt, who rounded up a volunteer crew of eleven to wrestle the huge, glass-covered, 10-ft.-long painting (weight: more than 500 Ibs.) from its temporary wooden frame, cover it with paper and tarpaulin against smoke and water stains and lug it to safety. To the credit of the museum staff, who struggled through smoke and water to carry paintings out of danger, only nine paintings out of a total of over 2,000 worth more than $4,000,000 were destroyed or damaged...
...five-month campaign to ease credit has failed so far to cut interest rates appreciably. Though Federal Reserve banks have cut their rediscount rate 1¾%, only a few loan categories such as 90-to-180-day bankers' acceptances and short-and medium-term commercial paper have followed with similar declines...
...Young's planned revamping, and Alleghany common has risen almost 15%. Last week the Superior Court of Rhode Island agreed that Mrs. Anita O'Keeffe Young, widow and sole heir, could exercise (as executor) her husband's options at $3.06¼ per share. Paper profit at its current value ($5.12 per share): $200,000 minus 25% capital gains...
...sort, merely ignorant, stubborn, anxious, self-righteous and poor. Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...