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...cast may stage an unscheduled show this Friday to recoup the losses...
...lost to rival trades. He clung with fierce determination to the tight little monopoly of the A.F.L.'s building-trade unions; he restricted membership, encouraged featherbedding, refused to recognize new building methods and materials. But during the Depression, he lost thousands of members to the C.I.O., did not recoup his losses until the boom years of World...
...raffish fables, they did the same with Guys and Dolls. Except for Pat Rooney Sr., who last appeared in a Manhattan playhouse in 1918, none of the new show's principals has ever played in a Broadway musical before. But Guys and Dolls, three months old, will recoup its $177,000 investment before the end of March, send out a touring company this summer. Advance sale at week...
...playing the bass viol with the orchestra, one teaching music, one on a Ford assembly line, and one as registrar with Detroit Business University. The strain of such a working schedule soon began to tell. In 1942 Braunsdorf fell ill, put all his earnings in a florist shop to recoup his finances, but eventually had to sell it at a loss. Finally, he resigned himself to leaving Virginia at a private sanitarium...
...million of public funds into Lustron's scheme to produce low-cost enameled-steel dwellings on an assembly line. Lustron actually produced only 2,200 houses, repaid not a cent in interest or principal on RFC's loan. By foreclosing, RFC admitted, it could not hope to recoup much more than 5? on the dollar...