Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albright bombards 54,000 customers all over the Southwest with as many as 250 leaflets a year, plus an annual 100-page catalogue and two supplements. He has taken a firm hold on the business of supplying Texas schools and institutions. He also buys up publishers' remainders at rock-bottom prices, dolls them up in new dustjackets, sometimes changes the titles a bit, and keeps them moving across the counters and through the mails...
Fixed Price. In McAlester, Okla., Mrs. B. S. Nabor collected $2,500 damages from the Rock Island and M.K.T. railroads for injuries suffered when she fell at the depot; simultaneously her husband collected an additional $500 for "loss of his wife's affections during her hospitalization...
...pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come. We're in a hurry...
...Eliot had already published three plays, but the Nobel Prizewinning poet and critic has always been more at home with his publishers than with theater people. The Rock (1934), Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Family Reunion (1939) all got into print without the test of a stage tryout-a process which prompts most dramatists to fresh visions and revisions...
Another sizzling hot rock is Kirk Douglas, who began his theatrical career as a carnival wrestler, moved on to Broadway before he went to Hollywood in 1945. In his eighth picture, Champion, Douglas was poisonously perfect in the cobra-cold title role. Warner promptly signed him to a seven-year contract for nine pictures at about $125,000 a picture...