Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Block decided that there must be better rackets than tearing off Mr. Young's calendar. He found he had a purling, pitchman-style voice that made people buy things. He bought an old Buick, installed a phonograph, a microphone and loudspeaker, parked it under the windows of a chocolate yeast company's directors' meeting, let go with The Stars and Stripes Forever and a blaring, vitaminy commercial. At the music, directorial paunches creased over the window sills. At the commercial, three directors rushed downstairs, hired Martin and his noisemaker at $450 a week to plug chocolate...
...chatty and glittery. Last week Martin Block signed a new contract for five years at better than $30,000 a year. At the contract's end, he expects to retire, at 43, to live on his annuities. Says he-and this time he is not quoting Owen D. Young: "Don't let anyone tell you they can't live without working...
...Rathbone's tensest cases: a young woman who complained that she trembled, was stiff in the knees and neck, could not sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the Depression, that she had recently broken a leg. Dr. Rathbone's (and her patient's) conclusion: "Must overcome tenseness to regain health...
Senator Norris is no longer as young as he once was, and his remarks made less than no sense. Electric rates are not based on per share stock prices; they are based on the total amount of money invested (or supposed to be invested) in the business. Nor could Commonwealth & Southern rob Consumers Power even by buying its stock at 1? a share: Commonwealth & Southern already owns 100% of the common stock of its subsidiary, and regardless of price will still own 100% after the transaction it proposes. For that matter, Commonwealth & Southern would lose nothing by paying...
...illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Joaquin Miller George Santayana. In 1894 they moved to Chicago. Their house organ was a little magazine called The Chap-Book dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced to U. S. readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction...