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Word: sharing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a consistent mood of grim decadence is no easy job for a motion picture, yet director, producer, and cast have held that mood and made Wuthering Heights into a tremendously convincing tragedy. But of all those who had a hand in the picture Laurence Oliver deserves the largest share of credit. Here is a Robert Taylor with some guts, a Clark Gable who knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

...three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there is still no winner, the money goes into next week's pot. Biggest jackpot thus far, a three-weeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week if shorts did not lose their shirts, some of them lost their neckties. At the end of April the short interest amounted to 662,000 shares, a 48% increase in four months. In Chrysler stock (the No. i flier) the short interest had increased 176% to 65,000 shares. Shorts had gauged all too well that business was receding. Overenthusiastic pessimists who had had trouble finding buyers, suddenly found too many buyers. When professional buying began, the shorts ran to cover, joined the buying parade. Result: in two days the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 3.76 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: June Boom? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Justice Edgar J. Lauer, whose wife is currently serving a three-month jail sentence for smuggling (TIME, May 15), who himself resigned from the bench (effective June 15). Meanwhile, Austin Silver, having settled its difficulties with SEC, has a new set of officers, is being offered at 181/2? a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dreaded Event | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...shop, hired its own pilots. This spring Trans-Canada Airlines went into operation between Montreal and Vancouver, and Janas found himself operating the eastern U. S. link of an overnight run from Manhattan to British Columbia. Meanwhile, a modest advertising appropriation began to get Canadian Colonial its share of traffic between Manhattan and Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Canadian Goose | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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