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...report's most controversial sections dealt with the problem of how much build-up to prescribe for industry, as compared with agriculture. It was no secret that Commission Aide Euvaldo Lodi, president of the National Confederation of Industry (Brazil's N.A.M.), had argued heatedly in favor of industrial development, even charging that some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost...
...First Day. The classic Communist plot begins, formally, with an announcement that anti-Communist parties have been caught in a conspiracy with foreign powers. The interval between this announcement and complete Communist victory took seven months in Rumania, five in Hungary, four in Bulgaria. In Czechoslovakia, after a clever build-up (TIME, March 1) which forced the resignation of twelve anti-Communist cabinet members, the crisis proper took only a week...
Exaggeration and ancient ham devices make up the first act of the play, and most of the second, with a little interpolated social conscience thrown in. After that comes a slow build-up to the curtain line, which almost makes up for the rest...
...salaries, set, costumes, and the rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort, but if you're not, it will probably just add up to an awfully long three hours...
...crazily exaggerated build-up [which] led. . . to the inevitable 'letdown' after the tests. . . . The Navy's safety precautions for the first test were almost ridiculously overdone Pseudo-scientists and in a few cases reputable scientists . . . made some astounding and wholly unscientific predictions" and the press lapped them...