Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...just read your reply, in your issue of Jan. 29, to my letter of Jan. 12. Thank you for letting me have back the first K in my name. Thank you for restoring at least a few hairs to my head. Thank you for adding a month to my stay in Philadelphia. And thank you for giving Stanley Walker more salary. But how self revealing you are when, in an attempt to hold on to $1,000 of TIME'S money, you resort to the ancient device of calling names and take refuge behind a purported statement...
Chamberlain tried to comfort the home front, but his main theme was to reassure the neutrals suffering from the British blockade. "We do not for one moment question the rights of neutrals to decide whether they shall come into the conflict or stay out of it," he said. "But we do ask them, whether they be small or weak or whether they are great and powerful, to consider that though, in the exercise of our undisputed belligerent rights, we may have taken action which causes them inconvenience or even loss, at any rate we have never sunk a neutral ship...
...thirds stock interest in A. C. & R. gives it a better return than Postal bondholders, who have the larger bond interest. As for the Postal bondholders' interest in the new Postal, what they get will depend on whether the land lines can work a miracle, stay out of the red. Main obstacle: a big competitor, Western Union, has had lean years too, the amount of business (badly nicked by telephone and airmail competition) probably cannot support two profitable systems...
...Grapes of Wrath (20th Century-Fox). It will be a red rag to bull-mad Californians who may or may not boycott it. Others, who were merely annoyed at the exaggerations, propaganda and phony pathos of John Steinbeck's best selling novel, may just stay away. Pinkos who did not bat an eye when the Soviet Government exterminated 3,000,000 peasants by famine, will go for a good cry over the hardships of the Okies. But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. For The Grapes of Wrath...
...still, the solution could be blown on by an air gun. With his process, mirror-makers could throw away their pitchers and work on a high-speed assembly line. Few weeks ago big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. bought Peacock Laboratories, lock, stock & barrel, announced that Chemist Peacock would stay on as president...