Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
...stockholders who gathered in Manhattan's Town Hall last week, President Mack had some more bad news. Pepsi's 1948 net had dropped to $3,152,817 (from $6,769,834 in 1947), and its first-quarter sales for 1949 were below those of the same period in 1948. Nevertheless, Mack was sure the worst of the company's postwar readjustment would be over in another six months...
Burt Brown, Al Ruby, and Joe Walsh swept the quarter mile for the Crimson, while George Williams and Captain Dave Hamblett took first and second in the half...
...tempest enough. Jimmy admitted that as mayor he had accepted a quarter of a million dollars in gifts from a friend. Chief Investigator Judge Samuel Seabury charged that Jimmy had let corruption rot his administration. (At the start of the investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came...
...Victor, Columbia, Capitol and Decca waxing it fast, "A" You're Adorable ("B" you're so beautiful, "C" you're a cutie . . .*) was a case of "H" you're a hit. In two weeks, Como's dreamy, dulcet disking (Victor) alone has sold a quarter of a million records. Says Businessman Buddy: "The other two guys just can't get over...