Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such Army and Navy publicists as these the majority of U. S. newsmen look for solution of Problem No. 1 of the U. S. press-how to insure intelligent, free-flowing news from Army and Navy. In the services is the cream of the news of national defense-and only a small part of it has any connection with legitimate military secrets. Failing to insure an intelligent and efficient censorship, Army and Navy, believes many a newsman, may well find their information bureaus handed over to some civilian "propaganda ministry," more skilfully organized but far less satisfactory as a source...
...Indian anthropology in such U. S. institutions as Manhattan's Museum of the American Indian and Museum of Natural History, Washington's Smithsonian and Chicago's Field Museum, the Museum of Modern Art's specimens were a mere shop window. But artistically they were the cream of what U. S. and Alaskan Indian craftsmen have produced, from the prehistoric Tennessee mound builders to the present-day Navaho rugmakers and sand-painters. Looking over the assortment, which included such highly skilled items of sculpture and mask work as those shown on the two preceding pages, gallery-goers...
Into such spectacular activity, sober-minded Southerners could read little long-term meaning. The money poured out for construction of the camps made a mighty splash in boarding houses, restaurants, saloons, movie houses, dance halls, filling stations and ice-cream stands. But once the camps are built the jobs will be gone. Soldiers' pay rolls will keep retail trade bouncing along, but if & when the emergency ends the soldiers will leave too. For a South which needs the tools and factories of modern industry, abandoned dance halls will solve no problems...
...Birmingham area's boom was advertised last week by a thousand plumes of smoke hanging over its valley. Its boom was definitely beyond the beer, ice cream and rooming-house class. But Birmingham has been the South's No. 1 industrial promise for nearly 70 years, and expansion of its steel capacity is nothing new. Aluminum plants are more exciting: not only do they look permanent, but the Reynolds plant will give Alcoa (which is also expanding its Tennessee Valley capacity) its first real competition in ingot production. But to many Birmingham businessmen, anti-aircraft shells, powder...
Business, it was said, was quite up to the level of other years, and had not suffered because of the war. Tradespeople looked for a last minute spurt today. The telegraph office particularly, recalling that last year it had delivered an ice cream soda with four straws, a dog in a red ribbon, two fried eggs, and white mice, looked forward to a busy...