Word: shoestringing
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So the matter stood. Jaffe and his old associates went about their several businesses. Amerasia had folded. Jaffe was passing the time writing a history of Asia. Kate Mitchell was collecting material for a book on the Far East. Andrew Roth, on the staff of the leftist Nation, was at...
The New Pedigree. But the Bull of 1950 had an entirely different pedigree from the 1929 breed. This time there was no bobtail following of shoeshine boys, elevator operators and other shoestring speculators trying to make a killing with 90% of their stock bought on credit. Tightening-up of margins...
When the television boom began three years ago, scores of hopeful businessmen, equipped with little more than a bag of tools, a shoestring of capital and boundless hopes, rushed in to make sets. For many, wiped out by stiffening competition, the hopes were short-lived.
Since 1898, summer theaters have spread all over while others are downright chaotic. In non-Equity theaters, for instance, the actors and actresses often paint and build the scenery, cook for the company, and usher before performances. Somehow, out of the fantastically long working hours and shoestring budgets, many first...
One large obstacle to European agreement was shrewd, stubborn Vladimir Porché, director general of state-owned Radio Diffusion Française, who is determinedly plugging France's new 819-line system* as the European standard. Porché has already put up a TV transmitter in Vatican City and...