Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other drawbacks to the 20 Walker St. quarters, she went on, include an overloaded wiring system--"when all 28 girls turn on their lamps at the same time, the lights go out,"--no space for smoking except the kitchen, and a bedroom mirror propped up in front of the living-room fireplace...
Last week, government atomic experts were hoping it would all turn out to be as good as it looked. The new find is only two miles from a highway, and is right on the line of traffic down the Great Lakes, much handier than distant Eldorado, in the Northwest Territories, Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector...
...next leg, killing his mechanic.) One Buenos Aires paper, cheering Oscar on, ran a headline: CAN ANYTHING STOP HIM? The foggy, mountainous road between Cúcuta and Valera couldn't. At times, he could not see two yards ahead - and going straight instead of following a sudden turn meant plunging over a cliff. At Valera, Oscar had a commanding 2½-hour lead over his brother, who had a comfortable lead over the third man. Then the Galvez brothers' luck...
...cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and she wakes up. When a power failure stilled her radio in the country, she insisted on keeping a guest up all night, talking, until the electricity came on again. She hates to be alone; she almost never...
...their booking arm has tightened its hold, the Shuberts' producing arm has become almost completely lax. This year they have produced only one show. They prefer-and are usually able-to fill their theaters with hits by other producers, turn out their own shows only when there are not enough to go around. Now, with theaters scarce, they get rentals of 35% of gross receipts, and up. With all their houses occupied by hits or near-misses, Shubert theaters are taking in money at the rate of $60 million a year...