Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Alps this week, on the slopes of the highest (6,000 feet) major valley in Europe, the snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz...
Like many another textile man who has looked like a genius during the boom, Joe Axelrod's real test will come with the return of cutthroat competition when the boom ends. He thinks his company is solid enough to withstand the shock. Last year, on gross sales of $37 million, net profits were some $5.5 million...
...first impression of Konitsa, as we bumped into the main square at the foot of the town, was that the shellfire had not done much damage. The houses are solid affairs built of grey stone with ivy and moss growing on the eternally damp walls. The shells merely seemed to have chipped their Turkish-built solidity...
Pacific Spectator tries hard not to be parochial or schoolmarmish, tries to strike a balance between the critical and the creative, and "as a mark of respectability" pays its contributors $30 an article. Its "Spectator's Appraisal," one of two regular departments, assays such solid stuff as Toynbee's A Study of History and Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. "Tradition and the Skeptic," the other, usually takes the skeptic's side...
...alone, moviemakers had done superlatively well in 1947. The estimated net of $100,000,000 was down from the alltime peak of 1946, but it was still far better than in any peacetime year. Some companies that had been on thin ice a few years ago were now on solid ground. Last week, Cartoonist Walt Disney reported that on his gross of $6,619,912 he had netted $307,075, his best ever. (He had not even taken into consideration $450,000 in blocked foreign earnings...