Word: drops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...woman got off the rope and I slid down it. It must have been a 12-ft. drop and the lifeboat was jumping to the swell. But my arms felt strong and I landed right in the middle and scrambled to the side...
Last week Jimmy Petrillo had what he calls fun. He required the local managers of George White's Scandals and of the Kaufman-Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner to drop references to John Lewis, announced that any mention of C. I. O. and its boss will be forbidden hereafter on Chicago stages. When Chicago newspapers fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited...
...about two years now this column has been spending a lot of time discussing Mr. Benny Goodman. Main points have been that he had a swell band until nineteen thirty-six and the coming of Harry James--that he and his band suffered a serious drop in both popularity and real playing ability--that Benny hung onto his sadly dilapidated powerhouse style until last year when he started to revamp his band...
Last week President Mac Farlane issued Minneapolis-Moline's 1939 report (for its year ending Oct. 31). During the year his company's sales dropped 8%, rather a good record since the sales of farm implements generally fell 10 to 15%. While late in 1939 U. S. business volume increased so that many companies passed the point where the velvet begins, Minneapolis-Moline's decline for the year took it back below that point. Its 8% drop in business was accompanied by a 91% drop in profits...
...Government-financed construction of highways, conservation projects, public buildings, sewers, water systems, etc. will drop...