Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money as the Bank of America. She is sure that Producer Wallis is exploiting her, and the idea is galling. ("I'm a very good business woman and I don't like to be hooked.") When Wallis paid her only $15,000 to play in Running, she almost backed out of the picture, refused to show up on the set until the day before shooting began. As Walk's tells it, he is entitled to a profit for taking a chance on a newcomer; furthermore, he says, Shirley was amply repaid, got bonuses and was treated royally...
...industry pumped out the goods to consumers, even the troubled railroads looked for good times ahead. By last week a series of successive jumps brought carloadings up to a point almost 13% ahead of last year. There was no doubt that the boom was still picking up speed...
...Almost everybody in Pittsburgh and other steel-producing areas now expects a steel strike on June 30; last week negotiators were farther apart than when they started six weeks ago. The United Steelworkers of America and the industry's four-man team, representing twelve companies, devoted more time to bombarding each other with press releases than to negotiating. At week's end the talks degenerated into a pointless skirmish over routine procedures of negotiation, and the union's 171-member wage policy committee authorized its officers to call a strike...
...thousands of seasoned tourists, but this summer's U.S. exhibition in Moscow is proving a strong drawing card. So great is the influx that American Express alone had a backlog of 200 visa applications last week. The once-formidable Soviet tourist restrictions have been cut so much that almost anyone, unless he has been involved in a well-publicized anti-Communist incident, can get a visa within a week or ten days...
Inevitably, the clash of races is one of the great themes of 20th century fiction. Almost too familiar by now, the theme often bogs down in sentiment or sociology. One of the few writers who easily rise above these dangers is South African Novelist Dan Jacobson, and he proves it once again in his first volume of short stories. As in his novels (The Trap, A Dance in the Sun), Jacobson's writing is skilled, hard and sun spare. He uses the tensions between Negroes and whites as he would if they were the tensions of love...