Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit me, however, to elucidate one point which you mentioned in passing. . . . I believe that this point is the sorest spot, the most serious problem confronting the Greece of today. I quote: "The old ability to make two drachmas grow where one grew before seems to have sputtered out." Right; the lack of individual enterprise-or rather, the complete reluctance to indulge in it . . . is the most perplexing reality in Greece's present national life. It is also the most important single factor in that country's current stagnation. No reconstruction, no rehabilitation, not even a simple personal...
...Workshop had to resort to "hiring a hall" after the University had decided to dump 400 folding chairs in the very spot where "Saint Joan" was taking shape After searching every nearby broom closet for free space, the group finally brought its wigs and grease paint to the Somerset...
...Weems had his big day in the mad '30s, took half his band into the merchant marine with him during the war, and is now making a comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises, and biggest successes...
...high jinks staged by commodity markets last week, the main ring was in Chicago. There, in the most hectic trading in the wheat pit in over five years, the price of spot wheat jumped to $2.50, highest since 1920. This put such a pinch on traders in March futures, i.e., wheat to be delivered before the end of the month, that futures jumped even higher, hit $2.62. Up with them they carried all the other grains...
...last? The National Automobile Dealers Association, for one, thought it was. Meeting in Atlantic City, the dealers compared notes. They found that order lists were melting away far faster than expected because of 1) high production and 2) cancellations due to high prices and living costs. They expected that spot deliveries would be commonplace by year's end. Emerson Radio likewise took a dim view of the size of the market. In the first big break in radio prices, it reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model. There was little doubt that department-store buying, which...