Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the President's top economic advisers had a description of the country's present condition: "There are four stages of economic deterioration-concern, apprehension, jitters and panic. We're now somewhere in between the upper levels of concern and the lower levels of apprehension."
¶ Exclusive exchange of patents and data between the three companies.
Stock Charges? To Du Pont's President Crawford H. Greenewalt, a son-in-law of Irénée du Pont, the charge of "bigness," and that alone, seemed to be the nub of the complaint. Snapped he: "Since these relationships [between Du Pont and the other companies...
As Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between...
Mencken has been a prodigious workman with a fine regard for the craft of writing. Even the "professors" he loved to pummel had to cheer his massive, scholarly and readable American Language as the best thing of its kind. At another extreme, his autobiographical books (Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen...