Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopping mad, certain independents surreptitiously undercut the official prices Big Steel had set for the industry. For a while Big Steel ignored this as a petty annoyance, but fortnight ago the buying demand of the automobile industry forced even Big Steel to shade its prices some $4 a ton, lowering cold-rolled sheets to $62 compared with $73 last spring. When an independent then cut the price another $2, Philip Murray was not the only steel man to fret. With the industry working at only 53% of capacity, it was clear that such price-cutting, if continued, must mean heavy...
...from being camera shy, the Dionnes seem a shade jaded by acting. One or two of them usually appear to be dreaming. The others engage in deplorably obvious scene stealing, from each other as well as the adults in the cast. The Dionne disdain for story values and decorum is only less marked than their disdain for their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling...
With undrawn shade...
...Sophomore stars of last year's Yardling team are engaged in a fight for positions, with George Hanford just a shade behind the veteran Harold Williams for goal, and Bill Edgar leading Phil Brooks, a Senior, for the right half post...
...Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their work so well that to the second congress last week came youths from almost every important country, nearly every major church, every shade of political opinion. It claimed to represent 40,000,000 of the world's youth...