Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three or four years now there has been a perpetual caravan of actors trekking the plains from Broadway to Hollywood, exchanging all the comforts of civilized drama for the barbarous and uncertain hazards of the Sierra cinema. Concerning these new pictures a theory has been noised about, which makes their aim not so much the immediate gold of the West as fame which will redound to their profit on their return to the legitimate. This is supposed, by tipsters of this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam...
...student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen of the oleographic school of portraiture, The First Billion, in spite of its crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh creep. At the other extreme from eulogy, it contains about as little of the blood of human likeness. Author Winkler's unretouched journalese is no more sensitive a medium than newsprint, but today's banker-conscious...
...enter into a full-length discussion of that ancient bugbear, the national income, which for generations has been used by liberal economists to scare light-headed social reformers. The main point seems to be that from the point of view of social well-being the national income is so uncertain a quantity and the conditions under which it is earned of such great contributing importance that the liberal economist's confident assertion that such and such a bit, or even program, of "meddling" will diminish the national income need not frighten us very much...
Shaken less by verbal criticism than by the uncertain market behavior of Government bonds, the Administration last week was very careful in taking its stance for its Dec. 15 financing. What it wanted was not just $950,000,000 in new money, but, more important, a vote of confidence in the Government's credit. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau turned to his new Wall Street-trained assistant Earle Bailie and they adopted a simple device. Wall Street expected the Government to offer one year Treasury Certificates bearing 2% interest. Instead the Treasury made the rate 2¼%. Result...
...With no uncertain force consumer buying was manifest immediately following Thanksgiving, and to the breadth of the Christmas demand was added the acceleration incident to the opening of an entirely new field of merchandise revenue [liquor]. . . . Reports are nearly uniform in placing the season's volume at the best level in two years."-Dun & Bradstreet...