Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeping prices down. But OPA's victory has also been the consumers' loss, because manufacturers of "low-end" goods, between soaring labor and raw materials costs on one side and inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric-where the spread between costs and selling prices nets a profit...
Also, a real impersonation that was as good as the real thing, was portrayed by our inevitable "Reggie" (for Regimental) Colvin. Sally Keith heard about the act and sent her resignation immediately to her agent saying that she wanted to quit while she was still famous...
...early age George quit public school and joined a roller-skating act. Then he formed a ballroom-dancing act with a 16-year-old girl whom he named Hermosa José, after a five-cent cigar...
...nurses in Cry Havoc are a quiet, middle-aged captain (Fay Bainter), a lieutenant (Margaret Sullavan) who, though fever-ridden, refuses to quit, a veteran volunteer (Marsha Hunt), and a rather luscious, well-intentioned lot of newcomers whose chief qualifications for the job are their good intentions and a dabbler's acquaintance with first aid. Short of medicine, food, sleep and experience, they do what they can when the Japanese bomb their hospital, strafe their open wards...
Chemicals and Beauty. Brooklyn-born, educated at New York University ('21), Alvin Brush started as an accountant with National Aniline, watched it merge into mighty Allied Chemical & Dye. But Mr. Brush did not like the chemical business, quit to found his own accounting firm. He would probably be running it yet if a blonde Follies girl named Hazel Forbes had not sidled into his life...