Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a very fine article about Jimmy Marshall of Rio, who is founder and general manager of the Lojas Americanas of Brazil. However, the picture with Mr. Marshall's name beneath it is most assuredly not a photo of Jimmy. . . . Jimmy is a typical American, quite fair and plump...
...Plump, amiable Editor Hall rises late, always walks by a florist's shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...
...other choice is to import the extra copper. Imports are now kept out by a 4? tariff; since Chilean copper is priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the present emergency was one of the trade's stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order...
...Best earnings news came not from a defense-plump Eastern road but from grain-carrying, often drought-beset Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. In August 1938 Atchison broke a 38-year precedent by failing to pay a preferred dividend. Last fortnight its common made the news. To the surprise of Wall Street dopesters who had expected nothing from its nine month's profits of only 11? a share, Atchison declared its first common dividend ($1) since 1937. Conservative Atchison directors never pay common dividends unless business is good. The dividend was taken as a sign of better times...
This week the sovereign State of Missouri will set aside a day to honor a plump, loquacious spinster, Mary Margaret McBride, ex-citizen of Paris, Mo. Miss McBride, whose previous citations include an award from the Wall Paper Institute, has distinguished herself throughout the land as the most-listened-to female heart-to-hearter. Since 1934, under her own name and the pseudonym Martha Deane, she has babbled furiously about friends, featherbeds, food, life in Missouri, New York and Europe. Until a couple of months ago, she was heard over both CBS and the MBS station WOR, serving Columbia...