Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mammy, California, Here I Come, Pretty Baby. Though Plugger Faye's My Man lacks the poignant tragicomedy with which homely Fannie Brice invested it, her cool contralto and cozy curves are still cinemusically perfect. Some of the numbers old & new she ably croons and sighs: I'm Just Wild About Harry, I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (the last by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel...
When he died insane in 1918, Cesar Ritz, onetime Swiss goatherd was the most famed hotelman in Europe, had given his name to 19 farflung hotels. In Manhattan last week arrived his widow, Madame Cesar Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...
...capital goods investment (private and Government) put $15,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000 a year of total new money to work in each War year. Production doubled between 1914 and 1917, the pace of U. S. economic activity stepped up, the way was paved for the still greater output during the 1920s. In 1926 production was 10% greater than the 1917 peak. U. S. economy has grown in size. Example: Wartime steel capacity was overstrained to produce 40,000,000 tons; present capacity is over 70,000,000 tons. In the grown-up economy, equivalent doses...
...usual enthusiasm, predicted an attendance of 1,000,000 the first day, an average of 300,000 a day thereafter. Actually, it was five days before the Fair announced that the million mark had been passed. Nonetheless, Grover Whalen last week declared himself "highly gratified." The Fair was still far from complete, and the weather inclement-the 40,000,000-odd admissions which the Fair needs to break even may still be easily achieved. To encourage local trade the Fair promised to enlarge picnic places, keep restaurant prices reasonable, provide more free entertainment...
Canny Detroit buyers refused to bite, however, decided to wait out the copper companies. Within a few weeks American Smelting's price was down to 10?. Still most purchasers waited. Then fortnight ago Phelps Dodge jumped it back to 10½?. This priced the industry's No. 3 unit out of the market, but enabled Anaconda and Kennecott units, Nos. 1 and 2, to make a market...