Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead or not, the spotty rises in the prices of basic materials and commodities were helping erect a tombstone over OPA. It would be hard, if not impossible, to roll prices back, even if OPA were resurrected. But not for weeks or months would the creeping commodity increases come out in retail price increases. Many a businessman who had pledged himself to hold the line would find that he had little choice if the basic pressures became strong enough. How strong had they grown in a week...
...with M.I.T., $350,000 with the University of Chicago, $280,000 with Caltech, $220,000 with the University of Texas, $200,000 with Cornell. Undisclosed additional amounts are in the offing. All told, the Navy expects to spend some $45 million on research, much of it for basic science in universities...
...Army plans to invest some $90 million, a third of it in basic research. An additional $40 million of the Army's Manhattan District (nuclear) funds are earmarked for research. By last week the District was well along in arrangements for a chain of regional laboratories across the nation. Biggest: the Argonne Laboratory near Chicago, headed by 39-year-old Physicist Walter Henry Zinn. The University of Chicago, the Mayo Clinic and 22 other Midwest institutions will help run Argonne via an advisory board, will use it as a center for research in nuclear physics, biochemistry and other fields...
...gives a competitor an advantage. Many industries, which have been slow getting into production because of strikes and materials shortages, are now producing at, or close to, the break-even point. What they will do depends to a great extent on whether the prices of parts and basic supplies (steel, glass, etc.) go up. The manufacturers can afford to wait and see what happens. None of them can afford to lead the price-rise parade...
Examples of studio thoroughness: a dramatic academy, manned by five instructors, sweated to teach Smoky's cast of 40-odd horses how to register basic emotions for the camera (no tricks); the star's glossy black hide, which began to bleach in spots after several weeks on location in the Utah sun, had to be touched up periodically with walnut stain makeup...