Word: dents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dent had the commodity price break made in the cost of living? Last week Ewan Clague, boss of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, called reporters into his chart-filled conference room to tell them. He had just finished collecting last-minute data, by telegraph, from twelve cities, kept his staff up most of the night assembling it. Said Clague: retail food prices have declined 3 to 4% from their alltime high...
...present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation's movie box offices...
Last week, the U.S. got its first chance to hear Honegger's giant-sized theatrical score. It ran for 75 minutes with no intermission, and put a considerable dent in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's budget. Besides an augmented orchestra, it employed the 185-voice Westminster Choir and a group of soloists which included Metropolitan Opera Sopranos Nadine Conner and Jarmila Novotna, and two actors-Ballerina Vera Zorina, dressed in a white gown, as Joan, and Raymond Gerome (in tails) as Brother Dominic...
...third of what he calls the Seven Lively Arts*−;radio. Despite the artful aid of filters and mixers, the Rose radio voice was flat and monotonous ("I don't think Gabriel Heatter has anything to worry about"). But Broadway's Billy was out to make a dent on radio. His brief, five-nights-a-week show (Mutual, Mon.-Fri. 8:55-9 p.m.) is a rewrite of his daily newspaper column, "Pitching Horseshoes" (TIME., July 15, 1946). Once a week, he transcribes the week's batch of five records...
...figures were shocking. June shipments of $175 million had boosted the half-year import total to $981 million. Against this, Canada had sold only $482 million worth of goods to the U.S. The staggering adverse balance of almost half a billion in U.S. dollars made a big dent in the Dominion's war-hoarded reserves, even though hard-pressed Britain helped out by paying Canada in U.S. dollars for $220 million worth of food. The Bank of Canada's Graham Towers, who knows, was not telling how many U.S. dollars Canada had left, but at this rate...