Word: liquidations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next night, when the same little old man entered the royal box in London's Drury Lane Theater, he was dressed in evening clothes. The audience rose to its feet and thunderously applauded. Up in his box, his watery blue eyes more liquid than usual, the great composer, 83-year-old Richard Strauss, bowed jerkily, first to the orchestra, then to the audience. Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas...
...Besides liquid fraternity parties and Indian fighters, the ivied College of Amherst annually produces good soccer teams. This afternoon James MacDonald's Varsity and Jayvee squads run into the 1947 editions of the Lord Jeff booters on their field 20 minutes from Smith College...
...that same Friday eve-at a rather liquid point in the proceedings-we were seeking a domicile, the number of which was rather obscure. Inquiry was made, at a house in the neighborhood, of a Southern gentleman, who looked so at home beneath the lithograph of the Charge of The First Maryland Regiment At The Death Of Ashby, that he obviously lived in this confederate fort. "What number is this house," we asked. "Man," his polite rejoinder echoed, "I reckon I don't rightly know...
Among the business opportunities advertised in the New York Times was a tempting come-on. On the block was a manufacturing business which was "absolute leader in its field. . . . Present production volume largest in history. . . . Because the well-to-do owners are obliged to put their affairs in more liquid condition they will accept a fraction of the real value of the business...
...gold mine for a song? Reynolds, who rode around the world in 79 hours in his "Bombshell" (TIME, April 28), said that he wanted to free himself "to devote more time to aviation research." Lamb had a different reason. If he and Reynolds died now without their assets in liquid form, he explained, their families might have rough going because of inheritance-tax problems. Neither mentioned another possible reason: the tremendous outpouring of underwater pens has just about submerged the market. The Reynolds price has dropped from $12.50 to 69? apiece...