Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks) 3,755,483 3,419,658 d=deficit The gloominess of some of these earnings was somewhat lessened when they were broken down. General Motors, for example, made $24,786,002 in the second quarter of 1938 compared to only $8,234,017 in the first quarter. With a similar improvement from $2,109,969 in the first quarter to $3,559,631 in the second, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller reported "a rapid liquidation of dealers' stocks of new and used cars...
...told, the net for the second quarter averaged an estimated drop of 70% in corporate profits from a year ago. For the nation as a whole, the Department of Commerce reported last week, income was off 8% from the first half of 1937, to $30,630,000,000. Should income in the next six months keep this pace, the 1938 total of $61,000,000,000 will be only $8,000,000,000 less than 1937-a smaller drop than anticipated...
...Metres. Almost twice the length of Stars and a quarter that of America's Cup yachts, six-metre boats are a Scandinavian specialty, cost about $8,000, first appeared in the U. S. in 1923. Winner last week was Briggs Cunningham's Fun, which won the series by just one point from George Nichols' Goose. Both will this week compete in the tryouts for the No. 1 international event for six-metre boats: the Scandinavian Gold Cup race to be held off Oyster Bay next month...
Algiers (Walter Wanger) sets its scene in the bizarre crookedness of Algiers' shuttered, cluttered, labyrinthine native quarter, the Casbah. It is the story of the defeat of a magnificent criminal ego. Whimsical, moody, brutal Pepe le Moko, a jewel thief from Paris, is safe as a fugitive just so long as he stays in the Casbah. Knowing this, patient Policeman Slimane baits him with the thesis that the Casbah itself is his prison, then calmly watches and waits while this disturbing seed takes root. The lure to break prison comes in the shape of an incredibly beautiful woman. When...
...years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University of Pennsylvania crew. He can row for miles at 40, can maintain a speed of 12 miles an hour over a mile and a quarter course. Last year, after running away with the U. S. and Canadian sculling championships with machine-like ease, oarsmen dubbed him the "rowing robot," marveled at the power of his arms. But his brawny arms are nothing compared to his perseverance. In preparing for the Henley Regatta, throughout last winter...