Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the challenge clear in a speech at Wesleyan University (see box). In New York, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Willard Thorp pointedly reminded U.S. businessmen and farmers that their present prosperity largely depends on foreign exports (see BUSINESS). In California, State Department Counselor Ben Cohen stated the shocking price as the Department has reckoned it -$5 to $6 billion a year for the next three or four years. What had not yet been mentioned was State's conviction that loans would not be enough: the money would have...
With rising costs and a box-office slump, there was bound to be a squeeze. Producers and writers "whose assignments have been completed," were being laid off by studios. Monogram, which specialized in Westerns and quickie "Bs," closed down for the summer. Bankers were cutting down on the percentage they would loan on a picture. The major studios were trimming their production schedules. They could afford to cut down because they had so many pictures "in the can," i.e., completed but not released...
Gold was off by 60%. The great Alaska Juneau lode mine was closed. But other forms of gold digging throve. Gold dredges nosed along the pay streak in valleys near Fairbanks. And many an Arctic placer miner would go it with bulldozer and sluice box, gambling for a stake through weeks of mud, mosquitoes and midnight...
...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
...Yard. Ground was being cleared for the Lamont Library, and the power shovels and dump trucks were at work demolishing the green slope behind Houghton. Strange things were being done to the Dana-Palmer House. Vag watched the big shovels; only five scoops of the jagged-toothed box to fill the puny dump trucks so full that dirt spilled over their sides as they drove out the Widener gate...