Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them: "You know he went off the deep end for a while. But Verne's all right now, and he's sorry for all the things he's done." Still rumorous were the reasons Verne Marshall never returned to edit after his expensive isolationist spree. (He had put up about $55,000 for full-page ads for the No Foreign War Committee.) More certain was the strong opposition to Marshall's steaming isolationist propaganda on page one of the Gazette, particularly on the part of Cedar Rapids' large Czech population...
...what the purchasing agents thought and felt depended to a large extent whether the U.S. would have inflation or avoid it. If they decided that inflation was coming, and began an all-out spending spree, only drastic Government inventory control could keep...
...three: 1) Investors agree with business bigwigs that when the rearmament boom ends, business will have a record crash. The FORTUNE Forum of Executive Opinion in December voted two-to-one that business conditions after the war will be the worst ever because the U.S. entered the rearmament spree without first setting its economic house in order. 2) Investors are sure the Administration is fundamentally unfriendly to business, expect company profits to be squeezed between rising wages and taxes carefully planned to siphon off profits. 3) Demand for stocks is being cut by prospective taxes aimed at oversaving among...
That brief first inning spree put the Soldiers Field outfit out in front for the first and last time as the Terriers came back in their half of the first frame to blast Charlie Brackett off the hill with a barrage of solid hits. Brackett, who was starting his first game since the spring trip, faced only seven men before Stahl yanked him in favor of Burgy Ayres...
...bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting him legally away...