Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's Men. It is a year since Walter Fairchild (Grant Mitchell) became a widower. Walter, slogan-spouting adman, is about to take himself a new wife. She, Florence Wendell (Mayo Methot) is to meet Junior Fairchild, Walter's 10-year-old son, and everybody hopes everybody else will like everybody else. Meanwhile Florence, inspecting the Fairchild apartment on Riverside Drive, feels she-doesn't-exactly-know-how in an apartment which was furnished by Walter's first wife and now is inhabited by her spirit. Florence wants to live in the East Sixties. Walter wants his western clients...
...hiatus has occurred in the duet of Florence & Walter. Things have not been the same since he chose between her and his son. An old admirer asks Florence to elope with him; she is on the verge of so doing but the old admirer refuses to let her take along her baby. That spoils the elopement. Walter at this point comes barging in, flower-laden, to find Florence at the telephone asking Junior, whom she has never welcomed, to come home...
Federal Reserve Power. Speculators have long since realized that Federal Reserve authorities disapprove of their activities. The important question lies in what steps the Federal Reserve can take to translate disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...
...will be lowered by the addition of 275 new seats, the $625,000 figure cannot be accepted as standard. The value of the new seats depends (as the value of the old seats depended) on what the buyer is willing to give and what the seller is willing to take. The only price regulation made by the governing board was that bids must be made in multiples...
Mechanic Grubb, sprawled among empty gasoline tins, had to be lifted out of the plane. He was almost unconscious, gulping for air. Before the take-off he had been fitted and jammed into his compartment, which was filled with extra fuel cans. Throughout the flight, he had had to pump gasoline from the cans into the wing tanks...