Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jump. Now, at last, Big Jake Kramer is sitting pretty. It is no secret that he has had at least two juicy offers to turn professional. Bing Crosby Enterprises Inc. is dangling a fat guarantee, $35,000 for the first four months (or 35% of the take, whichever is larger), to get him to go gunning for Bobby Riggs. Another proposition comes from a Chicago promoter named Jack Harris, who says he will meet Crosby's offer and go higher. Harris also wants Schroeder and Pancho Segura as a supporting feature: Crosby prefers a second billing of ex-Lady...
...Fields measure. The twelve-week series is Gracie's first in Britain, though she has starred in three U.S. radio series. The new show is aired three times a week (once live, twice transcribed) to the largest audience BBC can offer. The actual number of listeners is a secret, for BBC believes that publication of such figures "makes for jealousy between the stars...
...creative use or for destruction and that His intention will be executed. This line of thought would demand that we say it was God's intention that six million Jews die in the recent European carnage, that uncounted millions of men live today in fear of secret police. . . . With such a conception of sovereignty, how can we avoid saying that whatever is, is right...
Sidelines. The industry's plight was no secret. Instead of the 30 million pounds of airframe (about 3,000 planes) estimated in 1945 as the minimum necessary to keep aircraft factories alive, U.S. planemakers are operating at an annual rate of only 20 million pounds. The armed services, which had hoped for between 2,500 and 3,500 new planes a year, have been cut by Congress to about 1,400-barely enough to keep six plants going...
...million. One thing everybody was sure of: obscure Harry Hosford was one of the town's richest men. But his name is not in the Directory of Directors, and seldom in a newspaper. Hosford, a lone wolf, cloaked his deals, in secrecy. But there was nothing very secret about his operations in Government bonds...