Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harris De Haven Connick the Fair opened with $4,000,000 more debt than anticipated and it could not have been completed in time for the opening had not Standard Oil Co. of California and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. put up loans of $800,000 and $200,000 respectively...
...replace Professor Vavilov, delegates elected Professor F. E. Crew of the University of Edinburgh, who said: "The atmosphere of the Congress has been turned to one of complete sadness. Nothing, however, can put out the light of science...
...fastest growing businesses in the U. S., with an annual gross of some $36,000,000. Every disc-buying jitterbug knows that records have been booming, but why, and just how much, has been anybody's guess. Last week in a figure-packed survey, FORTUNE put an end to guessing...
...ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year-old Decca concern, with Crosby as its Caruso, stands second only to RCA Victor, with an estimated annual gross...
...success, They Knew What They Wanted, won him the Pulitzer Prize. Versatile, systematic, a prodigious worker (he sometimes kept three jobs going at once), he spent some of his time in Hollywood (which he hated), most of it around the New York theatre. This fall he was to have put on his first play under the banner of Manhattan's new, highly successful Playwrights company, was working on an adaptation of Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin the morning he was killed. That morning also, Father-in-law Damrosch got word that Martin Wolfe, another daughter...