Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that nobody would admit that she had ever existed. For the mother, The Lady Vanishes substitutes a dowdy English governess (Dame May Whitty); for Paris, it substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story for the old lady's complete blotting out, it substitutes an international intrigue, two British cricket fanciers and a mort of shootings and stranglings...
...coercing dealers to finance car sales through finance companies affiliated with Ford and Chrysler-they also agreed to stop advertising their affiliated finance companies exclusively. This gave Thurman Arnold his cue. Said he: "Monopoly is fostered when advertising is used to put competitors at a disadvantage for the sole reason that they do not have resources sufficient to expend equally large sums in advertising. . . . In the automobile financing field vast sums are spent by manufacturers to advertise the services of particular finance companies. . . . Like conditions obtain in the advertising of commodities, vast sums being expended to advertise particular brands...
...this reason, more than because of the $200,000 a year it costs them, the chains were especially anxious to win. They imported lanky young Theodore W. Braun. whose Braun & Co. worked with Lord & Thomas in managing the California battle...
Having made such points as these the chains claim that the real reason behind Wright Patman's proposal is the bitter hatred which chain-store efficiency breeds in competitive wholesalers and independents. This efficiency rests upon two prime pegs - ability to buy in huge quantities and elimination of numerous wholesale and other middleman functions which add markups to food costs. Such benefits can be obtained by independents through use of supermarkets or of voluntary chains...
...also Victor Moore, the uncheerful cherub, the chubby Caspar Milquetoast, the Chamber-of-Commerce Charlie Chaplin, the Cupid of clowns who shoots straight for the heart. Victor Moore is the best reason why Leave It to Me! is a hit. Victor Moore is wonderful...