Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equal to the challenge? In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future. Was there hope in that future, and if so, where did hope...
...what a transfer to the Regular Navy would mean in the way of a career, Forrestal frankly admitted, would depend on future legislation. All he could offer now were three generalized inducements: 1) transfers would be made in such, a manner as to "place all of you on an equal footing with U.S.N. officers of about the same age and of the same length of service in rank"; 2) Reservists who transfer would get the best naval education in the world; and 3) they would be promised "an equal opportunity in promotions and assignments...
Selznick and Rank had formed a new company-Selznick International Pictures of England, Ltd. It was to be financed 100% by Rank (as board chairman), and run by Selznick (as executive producer). Under the contract, voting powers would be equal. In 1946 they would make three pictures abroad. The first would be a $5 million special called "Mary Magdalene," starring Selznick-owned Joseph Gotten and Ingrid Bergman...
...Mexican constitution should be rewritten in verse and set to music; 3) anemic Mexican Indians shall be painted a healthy red to please the tourists; 4) the money stolen by labor-union leaders shall be used to buy coffins for the poor; 5) so that all may be equal in death, Mexicans shall be buried under a standard-model tombstone...
...woman like Clara Driscoll was something. She came from tiny St. Mary's, on the Gulf Coast, and when she was born (in 1881) many an aging Texan still remembered the Alamo. Her father, Cattleman Bob Driscoll, was just beginning to compound his $10 million empire out of equal parts of land and oil and trail-driven herds...