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...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...

Author: By Ernest L. Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...shares of preferred stock will receive cash and stock in subsidiary companies worth between $106 and $111 per preferred share. Holders of 33,673,328 shares of common stock will get what's left, from $4.50 to $5.25 per share in stock. Holders of C. & S. stock option warrants will get nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

These controls seemed nearly at an end this month. The American and British military governors announced that the Ruhr will be directed by German "trustees," until a German government is set up. Then that government will have the option of nationalizing the Ruhr--or letting it remain in the hands of the trustees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reversal On The Ruhr | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

...word in. Under a $100,000 Paramount contract, she played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since, A Royal Scandal (1945), was an indifferent picture that won her good reviews as Catherine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it tough-but not impossible-for a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Kansas Capitulation | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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