Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Willkie is no more an executive than the other two recent Republican candidates," Grady stated, claiming rather that he was a promoter and a public relations men. "He is selling himself with a prospectus like one used in selling stock in a company that exists only on paper...
...from the Idaho, Arthur Treacher's poker-faced buttling, and the inhuman jitterbug energy of Betty Hutton to keep the show at a lively pace. Costuming and scenery are done in the best Panamanian manner by Raoul DuBois, and the book of Fields and DeSylva is good musical comedy stock. Added up, this should be the proper formula for another Broadway hit, but in its embryonic stages the show does not yet live up to its promise. "Panama Hattie" still gives the impression of dragging, so that it never during its two long acts settles down to the evening...
...year steel industry fed on some 2,000,000 tons of U. S. scrap. This year, the Japs have braked their steel production; cut scrap purchases to 900,000 ton rate. Even this is more than their recent requirements. From it the Japs have built a scrap stock pile good for about six months...
...today the world's only important source of scrap. When Japan's stock pile is gone, she will have either to get scrap from Germany, if Germany can deliver it, or the Japanese steel industry must switch from scrap to pig iron. To do so, the Japs must get the Germans to build them some good blast furnaces; they must also get the Manchukuoan mines into real production, or get ore from Russia...
...Crazy became a big-time gusher. From the charred remains of the first Crazy Hotel sprang up-&-coming Crazy Water Co., with capital stock of $400,000, an $800,000 mortgage. It 1) rebuilt the hotel, 2) bottled the water, 3) produced Crazy Water Crystals by evaporating the water. Whereas the old Crazy Hotel, a mere therapeutic resort, had sold health on a cash-&-carry basis, Crazy Water Co. put it on drugstore shelves all over the U. S. Today its debt is down to $150,000, its physical assets...