Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respect. The professional sheen is applied by a cherubic-looking producer named Worthington Miner, 49, who came to television ten years ago with a directorial credit list of Broadway hits (Five Star Final, Reunion in Vienna, On Your Toes). Borrowing liberally from stage & screen (he also did a stint with RKO in Hollywood), "Tony" Miner has pioneered in TV with such effective techniques as the use of recordings for unspoken thoughts; the blending of film and live acting, and the combination of close-ups and long shots to get depth on the screen. His fondness for last-minute technical tinkering...
...pictured on TIME'S cover, TIME is glad that is so. But in selecting national figures for its cover, TIME does not presume to be 'honoring' those figures. If they are outstanding nationally or internationally, that is . . . to their own and to society's credit . . . It is TIME'S business to report things-as-they-are . . . TIME will continue to publish whatever seems to it nationally newsworthy and significant...
When he grew more wheat or collected more eggs than the public would buy at his price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even as late as June 1948, CCC had laid out a mere $294 million. But in the 16 months since, CCC purchases-to keep the farmer's income up-had increased fantastically. Last week CCC President Ralph S. Trigg announced that CCC had tied up more than $3 billion...
...Government's price-support program (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was on view last week. It consisted of 4,000 tons of cottonseed, piled high on the concrete tennis courts of a former naval air station in Oklahoma City. Bought and paid for by the U.S. taxpayer (through the Commodity Credit Corp.), the cottonseed seemed destined for the same fate as the mountains of potatoes, eggs and other commodities which the Government in the past has bought...
Undergraduate. In Albany, N.Y., the Franklin Credit School of Roanoke, Va. won a suit against Maurice J. Cleary, sometime student in its correspondence course in the operation of a collection agency, for failure to pay his tuition bill...