Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoover Commission, which has been poking into the jerry-built U.S. bureaucracy for months, got around to the Government's business-regulating agencies last week and made its most sweeping suggestions for changes to date. It urged that the power of the Department of Commerce be greatly increased by giving it the jurisdiction over all U.S. transportation, now scattered in a dozen bureaus. Under the Hoover plan, Commerce would take over: ¶ The Interstate Commerce Commission's executive powers over highway and rail traffic (including responsibility for safety and railroad consolidation plans). ¶ All functions of the Office...
...thought that a strong bull market was just around the corner, but some expected an "intermediate" rise. Said Chicago's Dow Theorist Justin F. Barbour: "The market pattern . . . suggests that 1949 will prove to be a 'Down' year." Then he hedged his remarks. If the market does not break decisively through its low point of last November, he said, it will be a Dow signal that there may be "an important rise." In any case, "a normal bull market is unlikely . . . until all the basic industries are confronted with . . . competitive conditions...
Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck, who likes to buck both taboos and competition, had groomed Pinky for shooting this spring as his "personal production" of 1949, with John Ford as director and Jeanne Grain as star. Last week Zanuck looked around him and ordered Pinky into immediate production...
...meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...
Triangle. In Brantford, Ont., Gordon Schwitzer, testifying at his wife's bigamy trial, explained to the court that he thought her first husband was "just another boy friend who didn't want me around...