Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next in size, according to their latest (first quarter) reports: Manhattan's National City Bank, with resources of $4,850,380,620; Chase National Bank, with...
...judge," Sargent once said of his portraits. "I only chronicle." Whether he liked it or not, Sargent's faithful chronicles, with all their style and grace, are what he is remembered for, a quarter century later...
...lowbrow, lusty New York Daily News, which sells more copies (2,350,000) than any other U.S. daily, was 29 years old last week-and feeling a little sensitive about praise from an unexpected quarter. In an article in Harper's called "Great Newspapers, If Any" of the U.S. press, Journalist Gerald W. Johnson had ranked the News high-as a business enterprise, at least...
Above Water. Eversharp Inc. (ball pen), which lost $3,416,985 last year (TIME, May 24), was once more able to total its earnings above water. In the first quarter ended May 31, Chairman Martin L. Straus II reported last week, Eversharp netted $318,618 after taxes...
...with a starting circulation of 2,000,000. Hollywood is getting into the act with one called Close-Up. But Selznick Studio, its publisher, sees no reason to give away what it can sell. In several hundred movie houses and at newsstands, fans last week were forking over a quarter for a copy of Close-Up filled with little more than publicity puffs for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Before his death (TIME, May 10), radio's Tom (Breakfast in Hollywood) Breneman built up a 500,000 monthly circulation for his 25? Tom Breneman's Magazine, whose...