Word: actually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program is designed to give recent college graduates "a practical course to bridge the gap between a liberal arts education and actual working experience," offering instruction in all phases of publishing, Mrs. Venn noted. In its seven years of existence, it has prepared over 500 students for jobs with book publishers, magazines, newspapers and miscellanous house organs...
...success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though it be, still has a point; and Rattigan, with a sure ear for dialogue, makes it clearly and movingly...
...intermediate tones. But the laborious process of cutting glass to the pattern of the cartoon, painting in details with an enamel of metallic oxides and ground glass, baking it, and finally assembling it with strips of lead is almost unchanged. Villon worked several months on sketches (one-tenth actual size), made monthly trips to Reims to supervise the work. Said he: "I would love to do others. But at my age that is not likely. I'm sorry they did not ask me to do this ten or 20 years...
...drastic production cutbacks in cars, customers are still buying new models for as little as $100 more than the cost to the dealer. In the appliance industry, said one General Electric man, the markdowns are so extreme that "you can now buy a refrigerator, washer, dishwasher for fewer actual dollars than you could ten years ago-and that's including inflation." There has been some trimming in other areas. Retailers with excess stocks of room air-conditioners cut prices on older models as much as 25% ; Sears, Roebuck and Co. cut its power tools as much as 30%; cotton...
Because of production lead time, the actual cash payments from the Pentagon went up more slowly, reaching $38.7 billion for the year, v. the $39.1 billion expected. The shortfall throws that much more actual spending over into fiscal 1959. Last week the Defense Department scratched the most recent estimate for 1959 spending of $40.5 billion and wrote in $40.7 billion, probably only the first of several upward revisions...