Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rogers, city health officer, went into action. The slaughter of nylons, he decided, was probably caused by acid-laden soot from low-grade fuel...
While the committee tried to make up its mind, Commissioner Ewan Clague of the Bureau of Labor Statistics took a hard look at unemployment, which is now estimated at three million. He thought that the problem would not require federal action (e.g., public works projects) unless the total reached four to five million and was "sustained for some time." But he saw no sign of that now. The importance of the more-than-seasonal January slump, he said, cannot be gauged until the seasonal pickup in the spring. (The boom still had a good head of steam. Heavy construction awards...
...across a major mystery. In 1947 the Commissioner of Internal Revenue had removed the tax exemption from three of Royal Little's trusts, ordered them to file tax returns on all past incomes. The trusts had not done so, said Tobey, and Internal Revenue had taken no further action. Asked Tobey: "How come...
...London widower (Melvyn Douglas) falls in love with a sympathetic, war-weary A.T.S. girl (Phyllis Calvert). His son (Philip Friend), missing in action for several years, turns up wounded, bitter and a virtual stranger to the father. Son turns for understanding-and eventually for love-to father's fiancee. Before father can marry the girl, everyone gets into such a self-sacrificial mood that son's postwar maladjustment dissipates itself in noble dialogue...
...story is told in three episodes which begin jointly when three young matrons receive a letter saying "I am running off with your husband tonight." The action is then in flashbacks in which each wife recalls her married life to see if it has been such a failure as to force her husband to leave her. The best episode is the one involving Ann Southern and Kirk Doughlas. In it, Mankiewiez, through Douglas, makes a keen and cogent attack on the social status of the school teacher in America and on the candy-coated moralities daily gushing forth from...