Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river stages in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, TVA's area in the South cut down the hydroelectric power supply, sent steam-plant output soaring. TVA with all its dams, had to turn on fuel burning plants which it took over from Commonwealth & Southern last summer...
Turnover. The oftener a business can turn over its goods, the better chance it has of profit. One way to check rate of turnover is to divide the gross sales of a firm by the value of its inventory. The first component of TIME'S Index is a similar ratio of turnover. It is obtained by dividing bank debits by bank loans; the result is actually a measure of turnover of borrowed capital...
...Solider stuff: a dollar reprint of William Carlos Williams' In the American Grain. Even for readers who turn up their collars at Williams' sprinkling verses, this book of prose sketches on episodes from American history, first published in 1925 and long out of print, should be a revelation in rich and searching imagination...
Before they realized what was happening, Frick and Frack were performing in Zurich, Berne, St. Moritz. At St. Moritz an English producer spied them, hired them to do a turn in a London ice show. In London last winter a U. S. promoter saw them, hired them to do their stuff at Hollywood's Tropical Ice Garden. When the Tropical Ice Garden melted after four weeks, Frick & Frack got one job and another, finally found themselves in St. Paul's Skating Carnival. There Producers Shipstad & Johnson, who know a good comic when they see one, grabbed the boys...
...hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak allowed that he might turn out something new in the genre...