Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guiding the new Wake out of its inactivity since the spring of 1946 are Say-mour Lawrence '48, John Hawkes, Jr. '47, and John Rogers '49, a trio whose aim is to give local literary talent an international reading public...
...motion picture industry, whose aim is always to please the greatest number, last week staged its sequel to the big show put on by the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee. Fifty of the industry's top executives, representing virtually every U.S. film producer, got together in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. After two days of conferences, they fired the ten Hollywood writers and producers cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify whether or not they are Communists...
Whatever their aim, they had made a pretty good answer to the U.S.'s highhanded threat to ban bulb imports...
They had remodeled the first few floors of a building on Gravier Street and called it International House. It became the symbol of the brisk new day. International House was designed to draw New Orleanians together in a common aim, to stop cutthroat competition, oppose tariff barriers, sing the praises of the Mississippi Valley and cultivate the commerce of all the world...
Even ever-optimistic Bill Benton was almost discouraged. Said he: "If the aim of UNESCO is not to attain greater and greater freedom of information, then it has no world objective and hence no justification for its existence...