Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatization of "It Can't Happen Here" is not a finished production, but it retains enough of the novel's emotional ferocity to be well worth seeing. There can be no question that the adaption of the novel to a dramatic vehicle constituted a difficult task and that it was not completely successful. Further, it is noticeable that production difficulties are less easily overcome by a federal theatre group than by a private organization...
Harvard Garden Grill--You've seen those chickens roasting on spits in the window. Go in and try one, you'll find it well worth while. Preface that with a few cocktails and the game will be a success...
...husband has had no trouble finding a market for his wares. Between 1924 and the end of last year Calvin Bullock sold $135,000,000 worth of fixed investment trusts, $78,000,000 worth of management trusts. One Bullock trust is Canadian Investment Fund, founded with a high-powered board of Canadian bigwigs in the days when the future of Canada looked considerably brighter than that of the U. S. Others include two series of Nation-Wide Securities, Carriers & General Corp., Dividend Shares, Bullock Fund...
...record," said Truster Bullock, "the majority of our trusts show profit to original investors. One thousand dollars originally invested in every one of the eleven trusts we ever formed . . . an original total investment of $11,000, today would be worth over $11,750. Meanwhile investors have received over $3,000 in dividends, a gain, appreciation plus income, of about 35%." Since 1929, he declared, Bullock trusts have paid out a total of $22,000,000 in cash dividends...
...charge are nature in experience and wisdom, their records worth examining. More important, however, is the philosophy behind the activity and their method of coping with their problems. A basic tenet of their theory is that a man must first sell himself to them. Only then can they introduce and describe their marketable product to the prospective employer. Every conceivable way of facilitating alumni employment is used. Personal conferences, the discovery of interests, the compilation of information, the arrangement of interviews between "scouts" and students, the inspection of various plants: these are but some of the more routine matters...