Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's Council will spend $5000, as did this year's. There is considerable room for a reduction of this figure. The largest expenditure this year was $1550 for the NSA, most of which went for representatives' expenses to various conventions. The rest of the budget consists of many small items. The total of these is greatly increased by the lack of any coordination in spending. The Council approves an expenditure, and a committee chairman takes care of it in his own way. For example, the Council's printing this year was handled by numerous companies throughout New England...
...there seemed to be a considerable difference between Herberger's chain of seven small-town stores and Butler Bros., largest U.S. wholesaler of general merchandise and also operator of 170 retail stores. Neither the Herberger hustle nor the magic of the Du Pont name could get the oldtime profits out of the 62-year-old company. Instead, Butler Bros, lost $4.3 million before tax carrybacks in 1947, squeezed out a small profit last year, but dropped $287,632 in 1949's first quarter. Its stock fell fcom 15 to 7 in two years...
...estimated $4.6 billion to tax receipts for the next fiscal year, which ordinarily would not have been paid until the following fiscal year. The Treasury took the idea under advisement, while G.O.P. lawmakers rightly complained that it was mere "figure-juggling" which would only postpone the deficit while penalizing small corporations without big tax reserves...
When Hollywood spins this yarn, it frequently abandons all pretense at reality. The stylized characters may lack conviction, but they have the gossamer look of dreamlike figures in a ballet. The British, trying in this movie to mix glamor with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film...
...Small publishing houses devoted to science fiction such as Weinbaum turned out have been mushrooming during the last few years, and the business as a whole appears to be on the upgrade. Most of them are three-or four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep...