Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hour once a week, picks up his $2,500 weekly salary, and departs. He suffered horribly getting together a radio show (with stooges Beetle and Bottle) from 1933 to 1939, but now he observes: "No stooges, writers, worries to worry about. . . . [Jack] Benny is crazy. Benny should quit. I wouldn't swap with him, Hope, Allen, for all the money in the world. The moment a show is over they start worrying about next week. They eat and sleep with radio every minute...
...crump of Russian bombs in Helsinki splintered the frozen stillness of the Finnish winter. Over Finland's radio came the numbing news that Cordell Hull had warned the Finns to quit the war at once. It was Hull's third try, but the first to reach the ears of most Finns. In the white forests and around the windswept shores of Finland's myriad icebound lakes, Finns blinked and wondered...
...unrecognized except by Argentina, tried to clean itself up last week. Finance Minister Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, intellectual leader of the December revolt which put the regime in power (TIME, Jan. 3), announced that the Government had expropriated all Axis firms. The day before, three members of the regime quit...
...netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry grew by a simple process. Employes of Sellen and another pioneer, Seattle's Neptune Fish Products Co. (Bonn's salmon eggs), learned the processing secret, then quit to go into business for themselves. When this happened, Pete Sellen simply developed a new and better process...
...nearby Russian soldiers ignored the baseball. But when they discovered the sailors practicing basketball with a decrepit volleyball and backboards erected on the dock, they issued a challenge. After the first quarter, the U.S. scorer quit-his team was so far behind he had lost count. The Russians also challenged the sailors at swimming. After one practice in the icy waters, the sport was dropped...