Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several industries customers who had put in big rush orders began sending instructions to slow down deliveries. Perversely, some frightened sellers tried to speed deliveries lest the orders be canceled...
Television hopes to do for art what radio has done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic...
Copper. But on the outskirts of the buying rush stand some industries which have already passed the peak mark of sales, are declining. Typical is copper, which the Allies have passed by in favor of purchases from African, Chilean, and Canadian sources; Germany, in favor of Balkan metal. In September copper sales had set an all time record (183,627 tons). Copper sellers sagely guarded against White House strictures on profiteering by stabilizing the price at 12? a pound. They guarded against overproduction by rationing customers. By the beginning of October sales had gone as low as 4,000 tons...
...former Klondike Gold Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...
Immediate result of all these new ship orders was a rush to put inefficient plants back to work-plants not used since World War I. Thus, American Ship and Commerce, an unappetizing Harriman affair, owes the U. S. Government $1,097,413.22 from World War I, and owes Philadelphia $1,229,608 in back taxes. It offered to settle for $100,000 apiece, got Attorney General Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring...