Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norman Corwin, 35, radio's wonder-boy writer-producer, this week took a vicious bite at the hand that feeds and pets him. In a new book, While You Were Gone (Simon & Schuster; $3.50), Scripter Corwin charged radio with "dreadful mediocrity. . . . The average sponsor and agency ... borrow, imitate, plagiarize, and perpetuate formulas . . . and become fast slaves to ratings. Originality and experimentation are . . . firmly rejected. I believe . . . radio has a higher destiny than merely to sell soup and soap...
Trouble, Trouble, Trouble. Those who were lucky enough to bag contracts had other troubles: maintenance costs were high, the best surplus planes were snapped up by the big companies; attempts to borrow money under the G.I. bill of rights were turned down because the Reconstruction Finance Corp. did not consider such airlines a good risk...
...peacemaker, Jim Mooney has already gotten results; and Sorensen bids fair to win his argument. Within a few months Willys expects to borrow enough from a New York bank to modernize its plant in Toledo. By that time, Willys expects to be able to announce details...
Canadian economists did not carp at the British. It was true that Britain did not have enough dollars for all her needs, logical that she should refuse to borrow more than she had a prayer of repaying. But Canada had not been niggardly in meeting Britain's needs in the war. Why should Britain now doubt that Canada would put up the money, somehow, to keep trade going...
Money Mad. In Philadelphia, John Santini pleaded guilty to killing a woman with a file, explained that she was continually trying to borrow money, and that this annoyed...