Word: takes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...paid in 288 centavos or 2.88 pesos (72?) for the 288 enemy planes notched up by the R. A. F. that month. This totaled some $2,100 or just over ?500. By the end of November the membership was 15,000. The November score was 293 enemy planes, the take better than ?2,500. (A Hurricane or Spitfire costs about ?5,000.) By the end of December the Buenos Aires boosters expect 20,000 members. Meantime their Fellowship of the Bellows has blown into Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile...
...Vichy, La Baule-and, still unknown in France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued for the right to manage her, take 15% of her earnings, lost their case...
Typhoid. Fortnight ago, workmen accidentally let the dirty Genesee River water flow into Rochester's water mains (TIME, Dec. 23). Since the typhoid bacillus may take as long as 42 days to incubate, Rochesterians last week still had days of suspense ahead of them. Many were cheered when a former superintendent of waterworks made the startling confession that the same mistake had been made several times before, "without too much publicity...
...aircraft was in an obvious mess. This month little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries for the year were about $625,000,000; are now running around $55,000,000 a month. At that rate, it would take the industry over five years to put its $3,500,000,000 backlog...
Added to tax-loss selling last week was a new December phenomenon: sales to take profits on stocks which had moved up. Since any change in income taxes would be upward (to pay for the defense program), investors with large paper profits hastened to cash them in at the 1940 rate...