Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communism actual or alleged was involved in violent, internal dissensions. As in the automobile industry, factionalism flared at the moment when Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipowners were beginning to accept the fact that a new union was on deck and had to be recognized. Unlike U. A. W., N. M. U.'s Communism, rooted down into the rank & file, was bitterly defended and attacked there...
TIME's best-seller list differs from others in two respects, 1) It is based on actual sales figures supplied by leading bookstores throughout...
...direction makes spectators dodge in their seats. Despite this powerful illusion, Hollywood has shown no enthusiasm for three-dimensional pictures. Some time ago it occurred to an inventive cinema cameraman named Joseph Valentine that something simpler might be tried, a suggestion of roundness and solidity although not an actual third dimension -something that would make characters on the screen less flat than animated pancakes. He looked for a simple way to achieve this effect, last week announced to the press that he had succeeded...
...taking pictures of possible sign locations. Then he would concoct novel advertising schemes, take his propositions to prospective clients. Soon his company, Douglas Leigh, Inc., became famous for such dis plays as its Kool cigarets penguin who winked 3,000 times an hour, its A. & P. coffeepot that emitted actual steam, and its Ballantine's Beer & Ale clown who pitched quoits. In five years the company has erected $1,000,000 worth of electric signs around Times Square, its assets have ballooned to $500,000, and its 28-year-old Alabama-born president has been dubbed the "Sign King...
...only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling experience he was a logical choice as McKitterick's successor. And as the cool, careful, level-headed type he was well fitted to guide Philip Morris from a small unit with big ideas to actual bigness...