Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of these flairs was that of a 1928 London taxi (presumably the only one in the U. S. today). This in itself, was not a distraction, but was quite enjoyable. It did, however, create new problems--and here is where the gods came in. In its attempt to carry Eliza Doolittle across the stage, the taxi stalled and left the actors and the audience in a prolonged embarrassment that was relieved only by the emergence of two stage hands who pushed the Austin on its weary way. The actors, and especially the taxi driver, George Bishop, heroically covered...
Psychologist Jung is not. Both in his 1954 article and in a more recent book, A Modern Myth, Jung does not judge or attempt to judge the reality or nonreality of UFOs (unidentified flying objects). He thinks that something is being seen, including refraction effects, but his interest is in the fantastic, quasi-religious cult that has grown around the UFOs. This cult, he thinks, "may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world that may lead at any moment to catastrophe. At such times eyes turn heavenwards in search...
...program of Ford dealers to make sure that wholesale parts were sold only to bona fide customers. But there was no agreement on the prices to customers. For the dealers, Dean Chaffin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, scoffed at the indictment. Said he: "If there was any attempt to fix prices, it was certainly a colossal failure. As every new-car buyer knows, for the past several years the retail prices of new cars have been the prices the customers have negotiated." Nevertheless, the Justice Department plans to continue its price-fixing probe in New York, San Francisco...
Accused by FTC of a "dangerous attempt" to create a monopoly in tetracycline and such related drugs as Aureomycin and Terramycin were: American Cyanamid Co., biggest antibiotic maker; Chas. Pfizer & Co., second biggest; Olin Mathieson, Upjohn, Bristol-Myers and its subsidiary, Bristol Laboratories...
...hearty, festive ring of the title, the "Banquet Years," says Author Shattuck, were essentially morbid. In his view they show the connection between modern art and a world that had lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While the attempt to make four eccentric figures speak for an entire era is muddled, the figures themselves-four characters in search of a historian-provide enough entertaining episodes to make the reader wish he had gone to one of their blowouts...