Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registration gave outsiders their first peek at Macmillan's financial statement. In the last ten years, its gross had risen from $6.8 million to $13.2 million in 1950. Net profit last year was $627,700; dividends totaled $1.50 a share. Macmillan had been able to pay a regular dividend every year since 1898 by concentrating on the educational and textbook field, where the profit margin is higher than that for trade (i.e., general reader) books...
...suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...
...scuttlebutt around Boston's sprawling Navy Yard was too hot to ignore. For a price, went the rumors, a sailor could get a peek at secret examination questions, latch on to a promotion, or wangle a cushy desk job instead of sea duty. The commandant of the First Naval District started an investigation...
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...victim had drawn into sight: Alan Valentine, the newly appointed Economic Stabilization director. He had been promisingly launched as a sensible educator, a middle-of-the-road businessman, a Quaker and a Rhodes scholar. Then the Potomac knife throwers went to work. Their efforts provided a fascinating peek at how such things work in the nation's capital...