Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Is "Fair"? Nathan's sweeping "projections" did not consider industry's condition in detail. There are 420,000 U.S. corporations, and not even Nathan would claim that all of them showed a profit. But his report was enough to make them all targets of labor's new drive. C.I.O. leaders denied this, but the report was hardly out when the U.A.W.'s peppery redhead, Walter Reuther, announced a drive for a 23½?-an-hour wage rise in the automotive industry...
...hushed) by Western "firmness and patience." To gain the Dardanelles and the Middle East, Russia was actually willing in 1940 to join the Axis and in 1943 to sign a separate peace with Germany. This is not rumor or speculation; it is fact set down in black & white detail in documents captured in Germany and now in the hands of the U.S. State Department. The story these documents tell was mentioned (and suppressed) at Nürnberg. It was mentioned again (but not told) in the House of Commons. It is not a pretty story, but it is a very...
Ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution agree with Pope that "the proper study of mankind is man," and that no detail is too small to be recorded. Recently, in dedication to this proposition, they offered a weighty work: The Marginal Tribes-Vol. I of their monumental Handbook of South American Indians (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington; $2.75). In its closely printed pages, readers could study the childhood...
...housewife, has to make a little bit go a long way. Years Ago is moseying and uneventful, and its curtains sometimes come down because there is absolutely nothing left to keep them up. But in its mild fashion, it is pleasant enough; it is streaked with humor and period detail, and buoyed up by a good production. And it shrewdly keeps to the popular formula of playing up all the crotchets and toning down all the real collisions of family life; of being not so much true or false as merely picturesque...
This was the world's first uranium pile. Within it, if all went well, would rage the first nuclear chain reaction. Physicist Enrico Fermi, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner, was sure that all would go well. He had figured every smallest detail, advancing through theory and mathematics far into the unknown...