Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the fellow travelers of the 1930s are now anti-Communist on the superficial ground of Stalin's postwar rapacity and bullying. They have not yet learned that international immorality is a built-in essential of Marxist doctrine, that world revolution is the real and unchanging goal of all Communists, whether they are blustering or cooing...
...Times has never had much luck with its Moscow correspondents. Walter Duranty . . . waxed rhapsodic over the Soviet 'experiment' throughout the 1920s and much of the 1930s ... The 'Times man' in Moscow from 1941 to 1943, Ralph Parker, turned up shortly afterward as correspondent for both the London and New York [Communist] Daily Workers, leaving a trail of glowing red faces behind...
Threat to Myrna Loy. Her first films were an undistinguished lot. Hollywood's top leading ladies in the 1930s were sexy types. Ros was valuable as one of the few actresses around with excellent taste in clothes and the figure (stately, but not sexy) to wear them. Usually, she played the girl who didn't get the man ("I was Myrna Loy's threat...
Some experts estimate that a $20,000-a-year executive represents a $250,000 investment by his company. And the American Fidelity & Casualty Co. has found that the average businessman dies six years before his time, thus losing for the company a sizable investment. As long ago as the 1930s, a few companies like Standard Oil of New Jersey set up company health programs with a limited emphasis on the protection of executives. But to most companies, the fallacy in lavishing care on their machines while neglecting their men, is a recent revelation. No longer is an ulcer the badge...
...Damon went to Harvard ('18, cum laude) to be an astronomer. But when he learned to fly as an Army pilot, the aviation bug got him. He joined Curtiss Aeroplane, became boss of a St. Louis branch in ten years, rose to president in 1935. In the late 1930s he learned about commercial air transport by joining American Airlines as vice president in charge of operations. In World War II the War Department asked him to boss Republic Aviation to speed up production of badly needed P47 Thunderbolt fighters. He returned to American in 1943, was named president...