Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waving requisition slips, the agents moved into the slaughterhouses. Angry butchers spat out the question: "Qu'est-ce que c'est, cette fois?" ("Now what?"). In a few minutes the entire day's stock of meat at La Villette had been bought by the government and resold to the butchers at officially fixed prices. All day agents of the Contrôle Economique moved about Paris, to see that the newly pegged meat prices were respected...
...powerless in the tentacles of his corresponding female's life force. Pat Kirkland was nicely vivacious, if slightly more American than the rest of the cast, as the younger daughter, Dolly. Her youthful brother, Philip, was played with a nice combination of exhuberance and English stage presence by Nigel Stock...
...legal limit for one day. Within the next few minutes, May oats had dropped their limit of 6?, May wheat its 10? limit. It was the first day of a break in commodity prices which stirred the market as nothing had in two whooping years. The New York Stock Exchange slumped sympathetically...
Scared. It was a mixed week for Henry Kaiser and Joe Frazer. They announced that K-F had decided not to go through with its proposed issue of 1.5 million more shares of stock (TIME, Jan. 19). K-F was scared off by the poor market for new issues. Two days later, Henry & Joe were honored by initiation into Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club. Sinner Joe chased Saint Henry around with a fork until he agreed to buy a Frazer...
Above all, "The Treasure" is a unique Hollywood product. The cliches of romantic interest have almost been avoided; the movie has violent action, but for other purposes than immediate sensation; both Humphrey Bogart, who has been playing the same stock tough man for the last five or six years, and Walter Huston, whose last important part was in "Duel in the Sun," are able to do some original acting. The result is a movie with some power, a movie different from anything Hollywood has previously produced...