Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been able to pick up only $1,800,000 worth of the order. Since the Argentine deal was made, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay have all tried to buy in the U.S. market. Their orders have not been big enough for U.S. manufacturers to start up production lines...
...start, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke made himself quite clear. He woulri leave the presidency of the middle-sized University of New Hampshire (enrollment: 3,500) and take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most...
Prices Down. Many a businessman was beginning to realize that the way to get consumers buying more again-and start up production in slack lines-was to make some more price cuts. Last week Lew Hahn, general manager of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, put this feeling into words...
...looked like disaster . . . Now they see it will be all right." Some of the psychiatrist's patients may have been holding out on him. The bestsellers at a leading Hollywood bookstore were still Peace of Mind, A Guide to Confident Living, and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living...
...Shaky Start...