Word: slicking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scott paper is made at a slick modern plant at Chester, Pa., where scientific improvement is the guiding passion and a minimum wage of 60? an hour has obviated labor troubles. Chief reason for the company's success is its product, specially created for softness and absorptive qualities. Two other factors help explain why Scott's big Fourdrinier machines now work a 24-hour day seven days a week (one of them has done so since 1924). As pointed out in the latest Brookings Institution tome, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress (TIME, July 18), Scott...
...have always thought the phrase "Like a hog going to war" had to do with their indecision when they hit a slick spot...
...Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this is enough to enrage his predecessor. Says Charlie McCarthy: "This is the meanest trick you ever played on me. . . . I'll mow him down...
...Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS). Famed rural comedy tops off more than 25,000 country stage performances with its radio debut, opening Four Corners Theatre series...
...thus they require a sizable investment. Philip Morris at first got such working capital by borrowing, not by floating securities. But inevitably, as its inventories swelled to a $20,000,000 figure, bank loans became too cumbersome, particularly on top of the $700,000 expense of building a slick new factory, opened last month. So last week with its 519,151 shares of common selling at $95 (on earnings of $10.91 last year, current dividends so far for this year of $5.25)-with its English Blend sales this year setting new records each month and expected to approximate...