Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...platters in 800 stores throughout the land-with sales topping 50,000 a week. Last week Musicraft made a deal with a promoter (anonymous) to sell at least 1,200,000 Masterpiece discs next year in credit furniture and jewelry stores. The records will be sold, like silver or china, in packages of a dozen or two, on tick...
...choices. It could let the price go up-say, to 14?. That would bring another 100,000 tons of driblets into the market from higher-cost mines. The chief pressure in behalf of this cause came from the Mountain States, which have already used pressure to get silver, wool and sugar profits with Government aid, have done handsomely by themselves in Washington. The chief argument against it: a 2? price increase would add $48,000,000 (for 1,200,000 tons) to the U. S. economy's copper bill next year...
...Ritz Bar, the Statler, the Lafayette, the Sheraton, the Ritz Roof, and the Beachcomber were favorite dance and drink spots around the town. The Silver Dollar Bar drew a poor last in popularity...
...Choate, Roxbury and other nearby prep schools to play against them. Then Princeton organized a 150-lb. team. Rutgers, Penn, Lafayette, Villanova followed. The six formed a league,* arranged a round-robin schedule. The late Foster Sanford, onetime Yale footballer and later Rutgers coach, put up a handsome silver trophy-to go to the first college winning the league championship three times...
...Always bad" were silver subsidies (90.2%), Guffey Coal Act (75.3%), gold policy (60.6%), taxation policies (67.7%), pump priming (61.7%), NRA (57.4%), AAA (53.6%), Wagner Labor Act (48.2%, a plurality...