Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next month (or maybe sooner) the chairman of Aniline's parent I. G. Chemie, Felix Iselin, will arrive from Switzerland to see about selling Chemie's large interest in Aniline stock. He will confront a tangled lineup of interested parties. The Treasury, which must unfreeze the stock if any money is to change hands, has already vetoed one would-be purchaser and may veto others. The Department of Justice is investigating Aniline's relationship both to Chemie and to the German Dye Trust. Several Wall Street groups, which admire the company more than its present management...
...such pleasant obstacles were minor compared to those which began to confront the building gang after the prefabricated materials and equipment had made the perilous ocean trip in 30 shiploads and had been piled up on the 15-acre site on the unoccupied English landscape...
...merely makes the humorous best of British courage and obstinacy under trial. It also has a range of breath-taking sound effects, from the audible eruption of a W.C. to German bombing raids (recorded in London). It runs the gamut of the tear-jerking situations which can confront a family in wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without a line being spoken, draws a round of compassionate applause. No audience can resist...
...deeply involved in war to retain the world's last vestiges of free-market principles. On the domestic front, the Government's division of authority among various departments is annoying to businessmen but not fatal. But in dealing with totalitarian foreign powers, the U.S. needs to confront the world as one power, with one policy and one personnel...
...Hence he has no more desire to cooperate with his rivals on price matters than had the young Henry Ford (who has not joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association to this day). For lone Weirwolves, the high-cost atmosphere of the A.I.S.I. is oppressive. But Mr. Weir will continue to confront Messrs. Fairless, Grace, Girdler, et al. at the councils of Steel's Defense Committee, the body which really represents steel in its dealings with Washington...