Word: ponderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penner and a unidentified blonde with nice legs are, according to the bill boards, and added attraction. These incurable followers of Penner will not be daunted by his appearance in the cinema, but skeptics as to his merit will ponder whether to classify him as moron or an imbecile. Mr. Penner does not profit by his venture in Hollywood. All in the all the afternoon was pretty much of a loss, for it was not warm enough outside for the cooling system of the theatre to be appreciated...
Year ago last week the prudent directors of U. S. Steel Corp. pared their preferred dividend from $7 to $2 a share. Big Steel had just piled up a staggering deficit of $91,891,867.85. Last week when the directors of the biggest U. S. industrial corporation met to ponder dividends at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, they had before them the annual report for 1933. Against an operating loss of $12,729,000 in 1932 was an operating profit of $18,439,000. To this was added special income of $1,335,000. But from that total was deducted...
...Elected a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Chairman Paul D. Cravath promptly put Director Sarnoff on the executive committee to ponder the Met's problems along with Otto Kahn, Myron Charles Taylor and Mrs. August Belmont...
...Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...
...varying factor, has been one of the chief obstacles of a rubber-tight agreement. But the times are in joint: it is estimated rubber consumption in 1933 will exceed production for the first time in five years. This week all good Dutch planters will emerge from the jungle to ponder their delegates' schemes in Batavia...