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Radiomakers, who had seen sales plummet, were saved-and then some-by television. Typical example: on a sales rise of 41%, Philco boosted its earnings 51% to $2.4 million...
...limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating the effects of economy...
...high in the last six years, cracked last week. Down, with a resounding crash, tumbled King Cotton. On Tuesday cotton futures fell as much as $2.05 a bale. Next day they flopped $10 a bale, the maximum under exchange rules. In the next two days, prices continued to plummet, $10 a day. On Saturday, the panicky New York Cotton Exchange closed. Chicago and New Orleans followed suit...
Sinek is confident that the demand for block ice will not plummet in the face of a postwar spurt in mechanical refrigerator competition. He believes there is room for both. He points to the fact that 43% of his business is helping to supply ice to the 140,000 U.S. refrigerator cars (now carrying more than 1,000,000 carloads of foodstuffs a year) in which, he says, mechanical refrigeration is unsatisfactory. Another 40% of his business comes from commercial users of block ice (hotels, restaurants, stores); from maintenance of cold storage, air-conditioning systems, railroad passenger-car cooling, water...
...plummet his voice from coloratura soprano to Chaliapin bass. But-it is not his voice that enthralls his fans, it is his lingo. For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,† is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans. Pocho, which literally means something that has lost its color, has come to stand for the thousands of Mexicans near or across the border who have ruined their Spanish without ever quite learning English. To aficionados Tin Tan is high satire...