Word: tip-off
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...tip-off to their anticipations is the fact that at the end of the quarter which showed this 110% increase in earnings, stock prices were unsteady and only 33% up from the same date a year ago. A further tip-off came from several companies' sharply curtailed budgets for capital investment in new plants. General Motors will invest $10,000,000 for expansion, a little more for improvement, in 1939 against $60,000,000 for expansion and improvement in 1937. U. S. Steel will invest $25,000,000 against $67,000,000 in "the major depression year...
...away with $18,000. In Manhattan, Thomas Malley had registered a black Plymouth coupé, license 4Y-7607. That was the car in which a man had been making calls at the post office in Topeka. If he came back, the general delivery clerk was to give the tip-off to Agent Baker. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the clerk gave the signal...
...made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered-a telephoned tip-off to a Boston opium...
...reader expects relief from a surrounding of brothels, insane asylums, and disease when Bardamn arrives on Broadway, New York, disappointment is sure to be profound. Broadway is promptly described as "a running sore." The tip-off is complete when, after one or two deprecative observations on what Americans are proud to call "The Main Stem," Bardamn pops into a public toilet. Now there is a subject for you! The author gives it as many pages as Broadway itself...
...victory took the title away from the University of Washington for the first time in five years. Oregon State's 6-ft-5-in. captain and centre, Ed Lewis, league record-breaking scorer, had a week to get ready for the tip-off against the next best centre on the coast, Southern California's Lee Guttero and U. S. C.'s crack forward, Jerry ("Little Nemo") Nemer...