Word: sold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business of Government. A new source of risk capital, Hodges knew, was needed to help Tarheels start new small enter prises of their own. He launched a privately financed Business Development Corp., personally headed a campaign that sold $1,000,000 worth of $10 shares (he bought $5,000 worth) for a kitty to back small business. Though B.D.C.'s fund represented only a small stick of capital, Hodges gave it leverage by signing up banks and loan associations to participate in B.D.C. risks. Run by a board of prominent citizens, B.D.C. took part in small loans totaling...
Barely Black. Newsprint, which can account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that powerful shop unions prevent management from cutting payrolls, even though only half as many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year...
...shop. Papers in three Georgia cities have combined as the Georgia Group, whose ad salesmen sell space at a reduced group rate. In a single plant in Clarksville, Tenn., Publisher James Charlet prints nine papers. In a recent, dramatic example, New York's chain-publishing S. I. Newhouse sold plant and property of his strikebound St. Louis Globe-Democrat to the thriving St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which will print the Globe on contract...
...Saturday Review, "will the cost squeeze continue its ravages until even those newspapers that enjoy a monopoly can no longer survive?" At last week's A.N.P.A. convention, no one had the answer. And the number of newspapers kept going down: in the last eleven months competitive papers had sold out to leave Tampa, Grand Rapids, New Orleans, Cincinnati and Charlotte, with a combined population of 2,450,000, as monopoly towns...
...home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide by working at Dreamland to save him. And throughout the theme repeats itself: innocent girl must enter, hardened woman must stay, old prostitute must leave...