Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spree with Profits. These restless groups are simply a shadow of a more acute danger that haunts Japan: a major economic crisis...
...bicycle manufacturer, for instance, is strictly limited in the amount of nickel he may use. Japanese manufacturers may use all they can buy. Japanese businessmen have plunged into a spree of lavish (and tax free) expense-account entertainment, bigger and shinier foreign cars, extravagant nightclubs and pleasure palaces. The sight of an oxcart stopped beside a Cadillac or a Jaguar is no novelty in downtown Tokyo. In this spendthrift, neon-lighted economic chaos, gangsters, blackmarketeers and slick operators-U.S., Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese-wax fat and prosperous. More & more worried Japanese are aware that the imperial...
...extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
Students who missed Saturday's scoring spree against Brown in the Stadium, or spectators who would like to see Tom Ossman score those five touchdowns over again, are invited by the Crimson Key to attend a showing of movies of the game at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lamont Forum Room...
...police to report that a baby sitter had stolen $18,000 in small bills from a closet of his Nahant, Mass, home, he got little return but publicity and trouble. The sitter and two teen-age girl friends were arrested (TIME, Oct. 29) amid a New York City shopping spree, but not before they had spent $3,000 of the money and had lost all the rest to a nameless big-city sharpie...