Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...targets "Bombing at very high altitude can be effective only on targets of great area. Such targets, unless we are committed to the concept of mass area bombing of urban areas, rather than precise bombing of specific military targets, are very limited. . . The B-36 is a billion-dollar blunder...
Never had Manhattan been more decisively invaded, and conquered, by ballet. Last week, 65 young British lads and lassies had bundled into two B.O.A.C. planes, bound for New York. The girls, uniformly pretty, were outfitted in the latest British fashion, in the forlorn hope that dollar-heavy dowagers in the U.S. might be persuaded that London, as well as Paris, can turn out smart women's clothes. But the major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even...
...Goal. Hilton began eyeing the Waldorf in 1942 when he bought a batch of Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corp. bonds with a face value of $500,000 for $22,500, or 4? on the dollar. A few years later, after the bonds had soared, he sold out at a profit of $412,000 to raise cash to buy Chicago's Palmer House. But he never forgot his goal. Last week, Connie Hilton proudly announced that he had reached it. Both he and the Waldorf's stockholders had signed the deal, and barring "a fire, an atom bomb...
...board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...
...unarticulated scenes. But "A Touch of the Times" will also let you know that there are people seriously pointing ahead towards movie-making as an art. It will show you that even in their creeping stage, these people can do a lot of things better than their million-dollar walking brothers...