Word: spoiling
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...fact that Tupper's questionnaires turned up any excesses at all. Among themselves, businessmen talk frankly of inventories they are hiding from the Government. They have also done a lot of inventory-ruining: processing their raw materials just enough (boring a few holes in steel sheets, etc.) to spoil them for allocations purposes, although they are not ready to use them themselves. Such stocks do not show up in Mr. Tupper's figures...
This dippy denouement spoils the picture, but it does not spoil the excellence of many of its parts. Actors Grant and Fontaine make very attractive love to each other, turn in a high-grade performance. And, thanks to Hitchcock's tricks (letting the camera wander down cliffs, pause disturbingly on people's faces), the film has a texture that can almost be touched...
Finally, it is argued that advertising blurbs on the Network would spoil its unique appeal, that "The Nine O'clock Jump" would develop into as nauseating a session as the 920 Club. But it can be assumed that the Network would limit its advertising doses to accord with Harvard tastes...
...strike should not be settled tomorrow the situation may be extremely serious. With electricity cut off, refrigeration in the kitchens will be impossible and the food will spoil. Students would have to cook and serve meals themselves, make their own beds and clean their rooms...
...included a promise to end work stoppages, OPM had granted A.F. of L. a virtual monopoly in the building field. Marred by a few wildcat strikes by a few undisciplined workers, the agreement had worked out pretty well, by & large. Was the Currier contract going to be allowed to spoil this happy state of affairs...