Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Rose (20th Century-Fox] shows how Tyrone Power brought the magnetic compass, the art of papermaking and the secret of gunpowder from far-off Cathay to 13th Century England. Based on Thomas B. Costain's lush historical novel, the film bristles with research, Technicolor, 5,600 extras (not counting 500 horses and 1,000 camels), the English countryside and sun-scorched vistas of Asian deserts. On this broad canvas, however, Scripter Talbot Jennings traces a curiously skimpy design...
...Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune sounded so much like the Communist press that the Washington Post lamented that people might soon label it "the prairie edition of Pravda." Cried the Trib: "Mr. Truman's statement on Korea is an illegal declaration of war . . ." But the New York Compass, which has often walked the Communist line, this time jumped off. It blamed the Reds and got a characteristic reward from its former friends: Compass Columnist I. F. Stone was accused of "slimy Titoism...
...purchasing agents. Their job is not to tell what has happened but what will happen to prices, consumer demand and production. In Cleveland last week, 3,000 members of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, meeting for their annual convention, took readings from all points of the compass on the future economic weather...
...Guildsmen on the pinko Daily Compass were accused of working in collusion with Editor & Publisher Ted Thackrey in the immediate economy firing of 13 employees, despite a Guild contract clause requiring 30 days' notice. ¶ Guildsmen on the Communist Daily Worker were charged with siding with management to keep the old pay scale ($71 minimum for reporters), while the Guild's local leaders were trying to raise Worker salaries in line with those on other Manhattan dailies...
...find a way to reach the new Seattle citizens, Rex Allison in 1946 ordered an aerial photographic map of the entire north end. He pored over the map with pencil and compass, soon found that a suburban branch located just outside the city limits would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...