Word: unsold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise in stocks, notably those of the airlines & aircraft builders, caught many an expert flatfooted. For example, when Pan American Airways Corp. planned new stock issues last December, it thought it safer and cheaper to make a deal with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to buy any unsold stock, up to $25,000.000. For its financing, Atlas received an option on 500,000 shares of Pan Am at $18 (TIME, Dec. 18). Last week, Pan Am canceled the deal. Reason: Pan Am's stock was up to 28, higher than even Pan Am's smart Juan Trippe...
...Harvard CRIMSON, publishers of the Harvard Service News, have bought all unsold tickets to the '48 Jubilee," Arthur C. McGill '48, chairman of the Jubilee Committee, announced late last night...
...batted the ball around, and I learned some of [Hearst's] thinking I didn't know about before. We got along fine. . . . Somebody told him I was a sonofabitch and he was beginning to believe it, but I got him unsold. Hell, I'm still here, ain't I?" Ruppel was still there, all right, but last week all references to "Dirty Shirt Town" in the Herald-American were...
...week Hollywood salary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he felt no "burning compulsion" to write what they offered him. CBS, which never had anyone to compare with him, welcomed him back with open pocketbook. They gave him the Tuesday night spot opposite Bob Hope (the best of the unsold time available), and wished him well...
There are authentic scenes as well: Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...