Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played twice, including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good a time. As the earl, 79-year-old Veteran A. E. Matthews is brilliantly unemphatic. expertly throwing away a great many lines that the author refused...
...Campaign. Though the new hotel's fame quickly spread, it has never been a big moneymaker. In its first ten years it lost $12 million. Last year, the Waldorf managed to net $657,981 on a gross of $18.7 million. But the profit percentage is slipping. For the first eight months of 1949, the Waldorf grossed $11.8 million, netted only...
...born President Charles Luckman has been itching to move his headquarters out of tree-shaded Cambridge, Mass. He wanted to take his staff down to New York, to the market place, where it would be close to the advertising agencies that spend some $12 million of Lever money every year. He also wanted to build a new $6,000,000 Lever House and gather the top management of Lever and its three U.S. subsidiaries under one roof...
...steel and coal strikes, quoting the old Wall Street saw: "Never sell on strike news." They pushed up U.S. Steel if to 1⅜ TO 24⅜, the high since the stock was split in May, and General Motors up 2¾ to 65⅜, new high for the year...
...barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...