Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national income, having risen from 1932's low of 38 billion dollars to 70 billions in 1937, was now, he hoped, going down only to around 60 billions. ". . . Banking and business and farming are not falling apart like the one-hoss shay as they did in the terrible winter of 1932-33." Then Franklin Roosevelt made an ingratiating admission: "Last year mistakes were made by the leaders of Private Enterprise, by the leaders of Labor and by the leaders of Government-all three." The Government's mistake, he quickly explained, was in assuming Business and Labor would...
When Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail was hired to run the Brooklyn Dodgers last winter, the baseball world, with good reason, expected him to pull rabbits from the baseball cap of the Brooklyn club. With a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, Larry MacPhail had in three years yanked the Cincinnati Reds out of a decade of doldrums by painting the ball park orange, introducing girl ushers decked in what he called lounging pajamas, starting a Red farm system and inaugurating night baseball. Brooklyn sat up in its seats...
Until last winter Britain's Imperial Airways, Ltd. and associated companies had bumbled along the farthest flung set of air routes in the world without evoking any more serious criticism than a collection of pointed smoking-room jests. There was a fanciful yarn about India's long-delayed independence; the guess was that it might be coming via Imperial. Spicier was a tall tale about a woman who gave birth during a flight to India. Politely taxed by a flight clerk for boarding the plane in her condition, she became highly indignant. "I'll have you know...
...Last winter it was discovered that Vincent Lopez, pudgy, decorous danceband leader, had been brooding long and heavily over the unsingableness of The Star-Spangled Banner. Suggested by Bandleader Lopez was a new version of his own, with its high notes pruned to fit the limitations of the average voice (TIME, Feb. 7). Bandleader Lopez' version, duly performed in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, caused very mild applause. But last week, as Congress was hurrying toward adjournment, publicity-loving Congressman Emanuel Celler (N. Y.) urged official acceptance of Lopez' "squeakless" anthem. Said Congressman Celler: "Why not enable everybody...
Alexander Efron is a strapping White Russian with an appraising eye and a voice as smooth as cream. He was a cadet in the Russian revolution, defended the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (he never thinks of it as Leningrad), got across the Finnish border with a band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster...