Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake had the edge in other small ways, e.g., his placements were steadier and he had learned the value of the lob. Since he turned pro in 1947, Big Jake had also learned about eating. When the schedule called for six or seven nights of consecutive play, he filled up on late-afternoon steaks and topped off with egg-nogs. But he cut down on the calories when there were off-nights ahead. Said Kramer: "I think I'll tell the fellows at Forest Hills, 'When it rains, eat light...
Smart Amateurs. Owners of small farms were also cashing in. George Parks, a meatcutter who did a little ranching on the side, is now reportedly worth $250,000. Farmer Herman Huckabee is getting $3,500 a month in royalties. Farmer Jackson Ellis could not afford to hire a drilling crew. So he and five of his strapping sons took jobs as roughnecks until they learned how to drill an oil well. Then they bought some secondhand equipment and drilled five shallow wells on their own place, where the sixth and youngest son worked with them as a water...
...hurt Woolworth's. Last year the company grossed $623,942,000 (more than double what it did in its best five-and-dime days), for a net of $43,496,000. It expects to do just about as well in 1949. Many of its sales still come from small items: last year the company sold 26 million hairnets, 31 million combs, 100 million pounds of candy. And Store Manager Herbert H. Hocher assured Houstonians that price-conscious Woolworth's has not entirely abandoned the small-change standard. Said he: "We still have a nickel cup of coffee...
...government, is hard-centered, soft-surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...
Interesting acting job: Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, as Stark's hard-boiled assistant, puts a snarl and growl into her radio-trained voice, spreading a small bonfire through her scenes and stealing them...