Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bess Myerson, all wrapped up in a long white gown and a musicianly mood, played the piano at a "Pop" Concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, managed to overcome what she calls her "natural barrier": being Mjiss America, 1945. She -gave them Full Moon and Empty Arms. The audience liked it fine, clapped without prejudice...
Pressed against the breast-high wooden barrier, a bearded elder stared at a faded photo, glanced up, stared again, then strained his eyes searchingly across the New York pier (see cut). Everyone in the crowd behind him was searching too. A pair of hands reached up out of the throng, jiggling a rudely crayoned sign: "Yaget-Welcome...
...welcomed, looking anxiously from side to side, walked timidly down the gangplank. A flock of orphan children huddled protectively together, like sheep filing into a chute. A tired old woman scanned the faces along the barrier, paused, drew a great sobbing breath, then collapsed into the reaching arms of her daughter...
After the Soviets occupied the lower half of the Danube last year, boats that went downstream might as well have sailed down the Styx. They never came back. The long (since 1856) Danubian tradition of free traffic, one of the few economic arrangements ever worked out in barrier-ridden Europe, was broken. Now the U.S. had most of the Danube fleet in its control. Said a high U.S. official: "We have the boats and they [the Russians] have the river." Washington would not free one until Moscow freed the other...
Note of Cheer. In his friendliest, let's-be-reasonable manner, "Hump" Mitchell turned the delegation down. Removal of wage control, he said, would breach the Government's anti-inflation barrier. Hump shifted his spectacles to his nose's tip, wagged a warning forefinger: "If you give effect to this [strike] policy, you will be endangering the organizations you represent." On that note the interview ended...