Word: uncut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week four sea post clerks aboard the United States liner President Roosevelt kept a 24-hr, guard over the ship's vault. Inside it reposed the famed Jonker diamond, world's largest uncut gem and the largest privately owned diamond anywhere. Discovered by a South African farmer named Jonker last year (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934), the stone weighs 726 carats (about five ounces), is bigger than...
From London's gem district went word that the Jonker Diamond had been sold to a Manhattan dealer named Harry Winston. For the uncut, egg-sized stone which shrewd Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of Britain's Diamond Corp. bought for $312,000, Dealer Winston had reputedly paid $730,000. The Jonker, youngest and most perfect of the world's great diamonds, was found one January day last year by the black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin...
...treatment of the movie differs from the play only in one important respect. Where on the stage it was a sparkling uncut gem, on the screen the edges have been nicely polished off, but the lustre has lost a little of its brilliance. This is most obvious in the difference between the interpretations of Alexander Kirkland and Clark Gable of the young interne, Dr. Ferguson. It was through the shoddy places in Kirkland's portrayal that the sincerity of his performance stood out. Gable brings to the movies a capable, even performance, but seems to lose a little of that...
...pegged the price of bonded whiskey as high as $8 a qt., announced that it expected to make a 40% to 50% profit on all liquor sales. Consumers immediately began comparing whiskey prices with those in Government-owned Canadian stores and, except in a few instances, found wide discrepancies. Uncut rye was from $6.50 to $8 a qt. in Pennsylvania, from $3.08 to $4.25 in Canada...
...drifting away revealing the highly unpleasant fact that liquor prices are exorbitantly high and in some cases prohibitive. Despite the unctuous announcement of the distillers that they would have an abundance of whiskey on the market at $1.50 a quart, the cheapest blended whiskey obtainable costs $2.75 and the uncut variety runs from $5.00 to $8.00. Even more outrageous than the prices of hard liquors are those charged for wine. Domestic wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap at $3.00; served in a hotel dining room these prices are nearly doubled. Liquor...