Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when the pens run dry, the authors resort to paleo-Chaplin antics like beery hiccups, pratfalls in a skating rink. Catchiest Jerome Kern tune: You Couldn't Be Cuter...
...richest city in Florida. But despite Henry Flagler's railroad population began to decline, is now down to 13,000. Rehabilitated in 1934 by the U. S. Government, the town was set back again by the 1935 storm, but in the three years since has blossomed as a resort, wintering 3,000 northerners, visited by 35,000 tourists. Deeply hurt were Key Westers last week to find that some visitors, who came in the first day's 1,100 automobiles, thought it necessary to bring cans filled with their own drinking water...
...absence of short-term credit." In other words, when a small business wants temporary funds, banks are glad to provide them.* But when a small business wants $500,000 to build a new plant, banks are generally unwilling to take such a long-term risk and the only resort for the business is to try to sell some securities. This presents unique difficulties for small businesses...
...strictly accurate. Marines frequently resort to horseback to cover the 2OO-square-mile ammunition depot at Hawthorne, Nev., but the Peking outfit was the only regularly organized troop...
...build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...