Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading players took time off for a little "rest" when they rushed over to Station WBZ for a fifteen minute broadcast of five scenes from the play. Half an hour after they came off the air, they were all reassembled on the stage, and from then until nearly dawn the 175 members of the cast, plus a number of technicians, went through the whole play twice...
...expert on European history, Brinton is the author of several books, including "The Anatomy of Revolution," published last year. After graduating summa cum laude he took his Ph.D. at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and then returned to take a post in the History department...
Larry Butt, John Irving, and Jock Elliott took the limelight for the Dormitories, while the Leverett cause was boosted on against superior ability and experience by Malcolm Marshall, Jess Willard, and Jim Monkman...
...paints, hotels). That year he helped undermine the foundation of the tottering Insull empire by selling Sam Insull a huge block of stocks in Insull companies for $56,000,000, about $6,000,000 above its market value. His financing, in the hardbitten, buccaneering tradition of the Coolidge Era, took on a heroic cast because it brought to the Middle West its share of control of American Industry. Admiring Clevelanders called him "Cyrus the Great...
...factory, and before he was 22 employed 200 men. Now he is 61, and since 1927 Martin-Parry Corp. has lost money every year. That year Henry Ford changed over from Model T to Model A, and Martin-Parry, with a big stock of T-style bodies and parts, took an inventory loss of at least $1,000,000. Meanwhile other manufacturers took to making their own truck bodies. In 1930 General Motors bought up the Martin-Parry bodyworks for something like $900,000. By 1932 Martin-Parry sales were only $29,141, and on the $29,141 the company...