Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contend are untrue. . . . Signing the stipulation would have disposed of the matter. We have long felt, however, that many advertisers have unwisely signed damaging stipulations merely to avoid public embarrassment, legal expense, or inconvenience. This we decline to do. ... In no single case . . . was the Commission able to show that Good Housekeeping had failed to carry out its guaranty, which has been in existence for over thirty years...
...from 98 for June. This rise (which represented not an increase in production but the fact that most business did not decline as usual in July-for the index is seasonally adjusted) reflected in part unusually early machinery, parts and materials production for the 1940 auto models (on show already...
...Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Chrysler's K. T. Keller (see p. 54) told business something closely approaching this. Said Sloan: "Automobile sales will be fully as good as last year." Said Keller: "The immediate prospect seems to be that business will continue at current levels, or possibly show some improvement " A generous estimate of "some improvement" might put the Federal Reserve index at a fall peak of between 105 and no, to a fourth-quarter average perhaps 5% above 1938's 101 (average...
...whole Empire is naked-nude, like poor old honest John: He ceased to be a mighty dude, for he had nothing on. Both big and little watched aglow this novel kind of nudist show; What John exposed, to his distress, was not alone his nakedness...
...little hammer, breaking the plate, he also dug quite a gash in the hobbyist's pate. Once a beekeeper lost control of some of his pets, who held Studio 36 against all comers for the rest of the night. A guest rooster flew off during a rooftop show, turned up later in the Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence of the Lobby?, Founder Dave Elman, a visiting porcupine wrapped himself around a microphone, cut the show off the air for a half-minute. But none of these little mishaps...