Word: tickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jubilant Elsie Dick, reporting a flood of 1,152 letters in response to the first program, went busily ahead with plans for this week's lesson on the atom- a mystery show entitled The Case of the Tick-Tock Murder, starring Cinemactor Turhan...
...other lads, drinking, gossiping and partying with them and staying at the same hotels. Last week, after each day's session, the Commies went off by themselves to their own hangouts. For parliamentary maneuvers, they had devised a set of hand signals like those used by the "tick tack men" (gamblers' signalmen) at British race tracks...
...resolution in favor of the W.F.T.U. itself. Deakin's presidency represents British labor's hope of rescuing the W.F.T.U. from Red domination. That hope, Deakin roared, has gone glimmering. He said that the W.F.T.U. was becoming a tool of Soviet foreign policy. The congress boomed approval, the tick tack men flickered like lizards along the wall, and the Communist motion was defeated...
...yappy") is the world's biggest state trading agency outside Russia, the report was less than a page long. It was unsigned, apparently unaudited. There was no statement of goods on hand. Though European soft-currency countries owe IAPI $732 million for food and other products bought on tick, the only reference to this was a $52 million item called "operations with foreign governments." Finally, without offering any proof, IAPI claimed a thumping 1947 profit of $259 million. "It makes no sense to me," said one Buenos Aires bank manager last week. "It looks as if the figures were...
...cash, collapsed in the depression, Dumaine was raked over at a congressional hearing for the way he had run the company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting down his activities in favor of more horseback riding near his Groton, Mass, home, Dumaine had a hand in running, as a director, a score of big Eastern companies...