Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright John Osborne has formed his own film company to give Jimmy an audience even wider than those who heard him storm through 252 performances in London, another 408 on Broadway. But an audience is not what Jimmy needs-he needs a doctor, for he looks back not so much in anger as in madness...
...Look Back in Anger (Woodfall, Warner), when it opened on the London stage three years ago, became a sort of Uncle Tom's Diggings, fanning a flame and suggesting a name for the new literary group that was soon known as the Angry Young Men. Its hero, Jimmy Porter, bellowed rage at religion, the Sunday Times, and his mother-in-law, a woman, he rasped, who was as "rough as a night in a Bombay brothel...
...convention, Secretary of Labor James Mitchell said that the Administration would have "no alternative" but to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act-and send the strikers back to work for 80 days-if the strike did not end soon. He also warned the steel companies that they were being very "shortsighted" in not finding a means to end the strike. If the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked, and there was no settlement during the 80-day period, Mitchell said that legislation "inimical" to the steel companies might well be passed by Congress...
...Fund quickly lent Britain $561.5 million. This, plus stern measures to cut spending, enabled Britain to stabilize its currency so successfully that it has al ready paid back $200 million of the loan...
...back as 1955, United knew that it would be late with jets when President W. A. Patterson, over hot opposition in :he company, turned down the 707 in favor of the DC-8 of its longstanding supplier, Douglas. Because of late delivery of the planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general...