Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small businessman named David Hillstrom, proprietor of the Corry-Jamestown Manufacturing Corp. of Corry, Pa., testified that in the last year he has paid $206,000 above the mill price for sheet steel. And he paid $18,000 more for steel he never got. He is now paying from $250 to $280 a ton for sheet steel (mill price: $50 a ton) to keep his plant going...
Last week Goulding's background music had leaped to the front of the Hit Parade. Mam'selle jumped from 25th to first place on sheet music best-seller lists in ten weeks. Said Whistler Goulding proudly: "When you whistle you're naked. You can't play covering chords to conceal the fact that you haven't got a good tune...
...business, preferences ideological and national give way to one of the most remarkable assortments of reading matter available anywhere: Daily Worker, Irish World, Turf Flash, plus language sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since...
When the horses go to the post this afternoon at Churchill Downs, Edward R. Hewitt, 2nd '47 will be watching eagerly from the boxes, camera, field glasses, and tip sheet firmly in hand as his father's colt, Phalanx, gets away from the starting gate in its usual leisurely fashion...
...thick & fast that many manufacturers were hard put to deny them all. Up-&-coming Henry Rosenfeld, Inc. (TIME, June 10) was so harassed by reports of its imminent failure that it finally took full-page ads in Manhattan's Sunday papers to dispel them with its balance sheet. Main point: cash in bank, $1,119,006.70; "owed to banks...