Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business of 34 big Manhattan hotels is up 50% from last year, but others show only a slight increase...
Senator La Follette's show will be cast along the lines of Author John Steinbeck's best-selling novel, The Grapes of Wrath (TIME, April 17). The persecution of Westward-wandering "Okies"* by California cops, sheriffs, labor contractors and such organizations as the Associated Farmers will be staged by expert Directors La Follette, Elbert Thomas of Utah and a third Senator to be appointed...
Other investigations-monopoly, petroleum, tax revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey...
...growing restless under continued war strain, that the Army of the Po, like many a careless motorist, had just run out of gas. London heard that Il Duce, after piloting his own plane over the troops, had suffered a heart attack. The hard-driving dictator, now 56, did not show up for the concluding review, same night ostentatiously appeared at an open-air opera. But the rumors persisted. For answering a query about them, Herbert-Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins, United Press man in Rome, got the most drastic punishment ever dealt a foreign correspondent, was expelled from the country...
...will probably have a deficit three times as big as Chicago's $5,000,000. (The Century of Progress closed its second year in the black.) Fond of booming, expansive ciphers, honey-tongued Grover Whalen prophesied for his Tomorrow 60,000,000 customers, when he unveiled his big show last April 30. Today the books of the Fair give an instructive financial history of the biggest world's fair ever. Set up like most world's fairs as a supposedly self-supporting promotion enterprise, like most, it is far from breaking even. Beyond the halfway mark (August...