Word: barringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The immovable 59 (most of them Canadian citizens) demanded that they be allowed to return to their prewar homes in British Columbia. But that was impossible. Early in the war, the Dominion Government confiscated and sold their homes and property, paid them only a small percentage of what the holdings...
Afterwards, the conference adopted the plan of Mexico's hard-working Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet to postpone discussions of hemisphere economics until a special conference to be held next year, probably at Buenos Aires, and after the Bogotá Conference. Having made this decision, the delegates amiably steamrollered...
Actors' Equity Association has often grumbled its displeasure at the Jim Crow policies of Washington theaters. Last week, the powerful union did more than grumble. It persuaded the League of New York Theaters, representing 126 producers and theater operators, to support its stand. After Aug. i, 1948, promised the...
Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its...
Economists assured him that, barring the possibility of wholesale strikes, things would be all right, that there might be a little recession first, but it was not likely to turn into a real crash.