Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress would be asked to take steps to control inflation. In his message to the "Turnip Day" session last July, the President had asked for stand-by powers to control prices, ration scarce commodities and allocate materials in short supply. There was every indication that once again he would demand that power, to be used when necessary...
...response to popular demand," HDC officials announced last night that two extra performances of "Amphitryon 38" will be presented, tomorrow and Thursday evenings. They will supplement an already scheduled Saturday performance, tickets for which have been on sale at Yale for over a week. Harvard ducats for any of the three remaining showings can be obtained at PBH or the Coop...
...Harvardian trumpeter, George Springer, whose career started back in the Randloph days, have been regretfully left in their covers, apparently unwanted by the jaded dancers of the late forties. The musicians have had to work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader Bob Herman has weighted his ten man group heavily on the saxophone side--there are four of them--and has oriented his style around the "smooth dreamy ballad...
...keep the lines free, they aren't supposed to talk for more than five minutes. So the girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that the key people in this sort of thing are the Housemothers. Let the girls approach these stern people, and let them demand that the lines of communication be extended. Let them get rid of that derisive repeated blast of buzzing that the telephone company is pleased to call a busy signal. It offends the senses and curbs the passions. It must...
...movie industry was perforce to be cut off from its theaters, RKO's Howard Hughes wanted to make the operation as painless as possible. While the rest of the industry awaited court action on the Department of Justice's demand for a formal separation of picture-making and picture-showing (TIME, Oct. 11), Hughes last week got his RKO directors to authorize a voluntary agreement with the Government's trustbusters. This was the first break in Hollywood's united front against the Department of Justice...