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...added that Jahco had offered to return $1,200,000 of its 1942 profit after taxes and plunk the remainder in a postwar fund. The offer was rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profit into Loss? | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

This is another one of those hills which do little more than fill up an empty evening, and it had better be awfully empty before you decide to plunk down your dough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

...cheerfully, year in & out, recitalists plunk down their hard-earned cash, practice themselves into a lather, suffer stage fright and accept their inevitable financial trimmings with a smile. Some are music teachers or locally famous virtuosos, in small U.S. cities, who hope to take home a batch of favorable press clippings. Some are second-rank European artists who hope to enter the U.S. concert world by Manhattan's tricky revolving door. Some, like Clarinetist Benny Goodman, Cinemactress Jeanette MacDonald, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, are successful popular artists who cannot resist a yen to compete in the long-hair trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recital Mill | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...blue Pacific, plunk on the Equator, the U.S. now has an outlying bastion to protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Good-Neighborly Bases | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...three successive holes (ninth, tenth and eleventh) he shot five under par-with a birdie, an eagle and a hole-in-one. For the hole-in-one, his iron tee shot dropped within 20 feet of the cup, bounced a few inches beyond it, then spun crazily back plunk into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Numbers Racket | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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