Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such moral monuments as Queen Victoria and Harriet Beecher Stowe lets fly with a tipsy tango, bawls through the mike a specially written Rodgers & Hammerstein ditty, cuts up under a table, does a swan dive off a bar, sees bottles light up, hears a cash register strike up a tune. Actress Hayes is hardly a born vaudevillian, but she makes what is clumsy about her also seem comical; and she romps through her new role with the gusto of a paperweight that suddenly finds itself a pinwheel...
...Tune. There was some chance it might be, if the drop in prices brought out enough hoarded cotton goods. There was little doubt that large quantities (one estimate was 1,000,000,000 yards) had been held back in hope of higher prices. OPA had been required to adjust the price of cotton goods upward every month, in line with the rise in raw cotton. This month, for the first time in months, OPA has not had to raise the price. Now, in fear that the peak had been passed, manufacturers were disgorging...
Eleven Bellboys from Lowell harmonized to the tune of three touchdowns yesterday to ring up the most decisive victory of the House football season thus far at the expense of an outmanned Winthrop aggregation...
...Tune. Some of the world's Assemblymen had come to Manhattan last week half expecting the dizzy glories of ticker tape and drum majorettes. But the New York of the Fitful Forties received them soberly, gave them a welcome of cautious hope. The mood of the delegates exactly fitted this welcome...
Cause for Alarm. Railroads, currently clamoring for an increase in freight rates, reflected the cause for alarm. New York Central was in the red to the tune of $6,623,544 for nine months, compared to a net profit of some $22 million last year. Some 15 others had skidded down also. Union Pacific tumbled from $31,316,921 for the first three quarters of last year to $18,752,495 this year. The Pennsylvania, which had predicted that it would lose $14.6 million this year, made $9,787,575 in the first nine months v. $90,667,673 last...