Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boring from within, has no loyalty except to Communism. He wants to replace a free U.S. democracy with a sovietized state. This was a case of clearly discernible danger to the U.S., and the U.S. could applaud the Thomas Committee and the FBI for being on the alert...
Strachey declined to reply, but last week Manhattan's unco-guid tabloid, PM, ever on the alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...such jolly bits & pieces, Ed has built his huge theater. Now all he really needs are some good shows. Aside from alert news and sports coverage, big, sprawling Mutual has only six or seven programs worth the time of day or night. Ed knows his weakness: "Programs will be our No. 1 objective this year." He means "programs with that commercial aroma." Ed once directed Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra not to play over Mutual "for art's sake-play simple, melodic things for the millions...
Three thousand people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...
...always had a strong appeal for certain Massachusetts politicians, both state and local. That such a bill as the one which seems safely laid away could even be seriously entertained should serve to keep Massachusetts colleges and the majority of citizens who are justly proud of them on the alert to forestall any future threat of a similar nature...