Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short life, the monthly had burned up $800,000 invested by Backers Harold Talbott, Jack Chrysler, Angier Biddle Duke, Joe Uihlein Jr. (Schlitzbeer) and others. To keep going, Kaleidoscope needed another $1,400,000, and nobody wanted to risk that much. Explained Publisher William Husted: "There's a falling market in the fashion industry right now ... and we just didn't get enough advertising." (From 172 pages of ads in October, sales had dropped to 56 in November, only 22½ in December...
...angry as a loser in a sharp horse trade, the U.S. aluminum industry last week focused its wrath on the Economic Cooperation Administration. The U.S., said the industry, was getting the short end of a very sharp deal...
Before the short (Nov. 1 to Dec. 15) season ends, Gros's three units will have staged 102 parades to a total audience of around 15 million. Said Gros joyfully: "Just like marionettes, only a hell of a lot bigger...
Talk of the Track. For nine months he galloped horses as an exercise boy, practicing with short stirrups and short holds. Last New Year's Day, at New Orleans' Fair Grounds, he rode his first race. Twelve days later he rode his second race and first winner-aboard a $52.10 long shot. From then on, he was the talk of the track wherever he went (Lincoln Downs, Narragansett Park,Suffolk Downs, Jamaica...
Final weekend tabulations of the Combined Charities Drive have pushed total contributions above $23,000. Although chairman James D. Cameron '48 expects "a few more contributions to trickle in," final totals will probably fall nearly $2,000 short of the $25,000 goal set last month...