Word: shakiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some illogical reason that no one in an illogical business has bothered to figure out, the new season promises a glut of musical shows-the shakiest, most expensive investment on Broadway. Last week's musicals lifted the total to three; 13. more are scheduled before the end of December. The angels willing to finance these song & dance entertainments appear to ignore the fact that only three of last season's dozen musicals turned any kind of profit...
With his convex profile and his hornrimmed glasses, President Lewis J. Clark of the C.I.O. United Packinghouse Workers looks like the Caspar Milquetoast of U.S. labor. With his mere 200,000 members, many pulling at cross-purposes, he holds one of the shakiest of all union leaderships...
President Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati had earlier predicted that dwindling registration would make, 1945-46 one of the financially shakiest years in educational history, with the virtual vanishing of military units which have held up the treasurer's report at many war-emptied colleges. The colleges' chief hope of solvency, said Walters, was the tuition of veterans staked to free schooling by the GI Bill of Rights...
Campus Insolvency? University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, in his current 25th annual report as volunteer census taker and trend-spotter for the nation's colleges,* predicted that dwindling registration will make 1945-46 one of the financially shakiest years in campus memory. His forecast...