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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back, dwell or diverge. The novel can give pages to the description of minutes and skip over years in a sentence; but while a film can dismiss time, it cannot expand it or hold it back to examine it in many facets. "A novel has three tenses, a film has only one." Perhaps the most important part of the book is the highly compact and abstruse discussion of the nature of time in the two media, and the difference between "psychological...
...results of the tight-money policy have been to discourage attempts to provide increased productivity in important sectors of the economy and to discourage the production of new housing facilities for an increasing population. Credit restraint enables large firms, and firms in non-competitive markets, to expand more easily than businesses in competitive markets. By encouraging, rather than discouraging, capital expansion, the Administration could insure more goods for which dollars of income compete, thus limiting inflationary tendencies. Increased real income, not decreased monetary income should be the goal. Special loan funds or accelerated amortization might be used to expand production...
...Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case-and its causes -remain too special to expand into identifiable bedevilment in man's fate. It is Grand Guignol in real life...
...even less. A rule of thumb is that any country with a rising population must save at least 10% of its current production for investment if it hopes to make progress in raising the living standard of its people. If a nation saves from 10% to 15%, it can expand rapidly...
...Boeing Airplane Co., the Government's biggest defense contractor, with a $2.1 billion backlog of orders. Boeing faces the deferment of more than $350 million in payments due for the rest of fiscal 1958. If the Air Force sticks to its new schedule, and the company cannot expand its $100 million bank credit, Boeing will be forced into a major production slowdown, says senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall. Boeing is already closing its 1500-worker plant at Everett, Wash.; it has chopped employee overtime, temporarily abandoned a new preflight hangar at Moses Lake, Wash., reduced its shop supply...