Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glib Proposal. Was it Ike's fault, after that, if the pressure continued to build up? The week before the convention, such hardboiled political practitioners as Jake Arvey, Frank Hague and Bill O'Dwyer were willing to gamble that Ike actually would accept when the chips were down. Some of their confidence sprang from desperation and wishful thinking, no doubt. Some of it may have come from Ike's unfamiliarity with the language of politics...
...Coblenz, German leaders met last week to consider proposals for a Western German state (TIME, June 14). The plan was a keystone in the dike against Communism which the U.S. is trying to build. Allied officials had feared that the Germans would stall or get bogged down in squabbles between the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. But in Coblenz, too, Western Germany's new unity before the Russian onslaught worked wonders. The tall, slim bottles of Rhine wine and the excellent cuisine generously furnished by the French may have helped. Socialists and Christian Democrats basically agreed...
...other arts because it combines all of them." Last January he set up an organization to visualize his vision. With Photographer Robert Capa, former United Artists Radio Director Henry S. White and RKO's Vice President Phil Reisman, he incorporated an outfit called World Video. Their aim: to build and film good shows, sell them to the television networks...
...bloomed into the American-Indonesian Corp. Its guiding spirit, needless to say, is Matty Fox, who holds 51% of the corporation's voting stock. He will do all the Indonesian government's bulk buying & selling in the U.S. and will try to find U.S. risk capital to build up the islands' mines and industries. Says Dr. Soemitro Djojoadikoesoemo, Indonesian trade commissioner to the U.S. who negotiated the deal: "We need U.S. capital and skill ... We like Matty...
...Fullerette had been picked by a critical boss-the Fuller Brush man whose $30-million-a-year beat she hoped to build up. From him she had learned the whole bag of Fuller rules: 1) dress neatly; 2) speak quietly; 3) never high-pressure, and 4) take a brushoff with a smile...