Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bretton Woods, the United Nations' master plan for orderly international trade, was just a year old. Of the 44 drafting nations, not one had either accepted or rejected the proposals. Forty-three waited for the U.S. to act...
...enjoy a thunderous, starlit performance of Aïda. It was the biggest musical event since the liberation. In the open-air theater at the historic Baths of Caracalla, the huge (160 x 120 ft.) stage was set against two towering piles of ancient ruins. During the great second act 1,194 singers and actors were onstage, accompanied by a 140-piece orchestra. Artists, sets, costumes were roundly cheered-and so was a black & white cat which swaggered across the stage during the act's tense first scene...
Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress. But last week, even Wall Streeters' tough ears tingled. Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers. The plot, said he, was to socialize the $18 billion U.S. electric utility industry and make "many billions" in the process...
Democrat Boren's "conspiracy" collapsed. In a master-weaseled statement he promptly said that his inquiry was merely "to begin a study of what appears to be an example of what might be an evasion of the purpose of the Holding Company Act." Then, having summoned only two witnesses before his committee, he hastily called off his probe for the summer...
...last week finally laid down, for the world to see, its postwar international air policy. The policy: regulated competition on international routes, instead of a chosen instrument. Without waiting any longer for Congress to act, President Truman approved the choice of the Civil Aeronautics Board for airlines to fly the Atlantic. As expected (TIME, July 9), the routes were granted to Pan American Airways, Transcontinental & Western Air, and American Export Airlines; American Airlines got permission to buy control of American Export Airlines...