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...took General Electric six months, many a hot sales talk, to cut refrigerator payment periods from 36 to 30 months. If the big installment lenders (like Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, General Motors Acceptance Corp.) get too strict, thousands of banks and small credit men stand ready to steal their business with more liberal terms...
...Treaty of London, if it had been kept, would have given Italy part of Dalmatia, hegemony over Albania, colonial expansion in Africa and influence in the Near East. Instead, she got only slivers of African territory from the Allies, had to buy, then steal Albania, and waited for May 1941 to get her share of Dalmatia...
...elimination of Nazi agents from U.S. business concerns, backfired with annoying results. By last week several hundred agents had been fired by their employers. Many of them had promptly hopped off to the U.S.. sold their services to their former employers' competitors, returned to Latin America to steal business for their new firms...
Harvard bids fair to steal the spotlight at next September's Fiftieth Anniversary celebration at the University of Chicago. Five professors here, the largest contingent from any university in the country, are scheduled to receive honorary degrees for their achievements in science and scholarship, it was announced yesterday...
...last they came to Benny. He read his speech, with a crack for all comedians present. and an introduction for each of lis assistants (for his famed Negro valet: 'Next week I start Charley's Aunt, and ;hat's one picture Rochester won't steal; he won't be in it."). When the party finished, it was 4 a.m., everybody was right, and they all went home. NBC was proud of its show for Showman Benny. It should have been: the blowout alone cost over...