Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Goldblatt Bros., Inc. department store, whose sales were off 20%, thought his business would actually be better because he would not have to repossess so many items. "Believe me," said he, "when a buyer has to put $100 down on a $400 item, he's going to make those payments." Furthermore, Murray, and many another retailer, thought that customers would be coming back again as soon as they got used to bigger installment payments...
...early days of the establishment," said Giannini, "the best financial statement that you could present . . . was calluses on your hands ... A fellow would come in and make [a loan] application and we would ask to see his hands . .. If he had calluses on his hands he would probably get the loan...
...which expects to start taking delivery in three months on an order for 14 Comets, is already lengthening the landing strips on fields along the London-Rome -Cairo -India -Singapore -Australia route to handle the jet plane. At present, Sir Miles held that high fuel consumption and airport congestion make jet transports impractical on routes to such airports as La Guardia. Said he: "No matter what the U.S. does, we're 18 months ahead of the rest of the world." (U.S. aircraft builders at the conference agreed; the U.S. does not have a single commercial jet transport plane abuilding...
...audience, the names of British Novelists Henry Green and Joyce Gary suggest writing that shines with wit and good humor even when they are dealing with serious stuff. Though Gary's work runs to richness and Green's to slyness, they have one thing in common: they make most U.S. novelists of 1950 seem lugubriously pedestrian...
...Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...