Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Telephone. That evening and through the next day Jessup waited for his reply. In other offices in Manhattan, France's Jean Chauvel and Britain's Alexander Cadogan also waited. At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a little man named O. A. Tro-yanovsky, whose father had been the first Soviet ambassador appointed to the U.S., arrived at Jessup's office with Malik's reply...
...spite of the endless bickering of defense counsel in Manhattan's federal courthouse, the trial of the nation's eleven top Communists began to take shape. Last week, an exchange between Judge Harold Medina and Party Boss Eugene Dennis, who is defending himself, threw the fundamental issue of the case into sharp, clear focus...
...isolated case. Summer clothes in stores all over the U.S. were going at bargain rates. In Atlanta, Rich's offered $4 cotton dresses (40% below last year). In Nashville, Harvey's department store slashed all its prices by 35% to 40%. Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, put on sale $1 million worth of summer merchandise at cut prices. In Chicago, Mandel Brothers sold $18 summer dresses for $7. Montgomery Ward & Co. also swung a sharp ax. It cut prices from 10% to 40%; washing machines were off 10% to 15%; porch furniture...
Loans Down. In the overall picture, the price cuts were part of what Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. called the "very moderate" recession. The sizable cuts were largely confined to soft goods, lumber, a few other commodities (in the futures market, May wheat hit a flurry of .selling which sent it down 6?) and such surplus items as radio-phonographs, which were cut up to 40% by Magnavox...
...much is it worth to have the President's ear? Two and a half months ago a sympathetic Manhattan jury decided that if the whisperer was Oilman James A. Moffett, it was worth plenty. The jury awarded the onetime FHAdministrator a fat $1,150,000 judgment in his suit against Arabian American Oil Co., Inc. for certain "services rendered" (TIME, Feb. 28). The services, according to Moffett, were very special. Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud had demanded an extra $6,000,000 a year from Aramco in 1941, on the threat of tearing up its multi-billion...