Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Coast parents and public-school principals, had lined up a record number of applicants for the coming year. And Santa Barbara, with an endowment of $200,000, a staff of 13 and 61 students (tuition & board: $2,000), was about to launch a $125,000 building project which would make room for 125 students...
...evening States from their dominating position in the New Orleans newspaper field. But Northerner Stern found that Southerner Leonard Kimball Nicholson * had rooted his two newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ. 99,658) got a helping hand against the Times-Pic (circ. 180,584) and the States (circ. 99,339) from an outside party...
Last month, suspect Macri's older brother Jimmy began trying to make a deal to surrender him. Brother Jimmy was sick & tired of the close watch the police had put on him. Furthermore, Benedict knew he could not hide much longer because his money was running out. First Jimmy tried to persuade a prominent public figure to accept Benedict's surrender, but got a turndown. A few weeks ago, Jimmy went to Columnist Winchell, made a deal with him to accept the surrender. While the details were being worked out, Winchell, always a shrewd showman, broadcast two more...
...members of this class may make a partial adjustment and become involved in marriage, but this solves the problem only outwardly ... A closer inspection will demonstrate the same pattern of flight and combat interwoven with the marriage thread. There may be an excessive . . . interest in card playing and club and sport pursuits and a proportionate neglect of the husband. This type will take great interest in traveling alone, in purchasing expensive clothes, perhaps even in the aggressive pursuit of a career. Pregnancy is avoided as a nuisance or even a calamity...
...Atlantic City last week, General Electric's broad-shouldered President Charles E. Wilson rose to grapple with the toughest problem confronting U.S. big business. The problem: How can big corporations make long-range plans to expand, provide more jobs and produce more goods in the face of the Federal Government's determined attempts to break up bigness...