Word: falle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playwrights' laboratory (the Provincetown, Mass. Players launched Eugene O'Neill), today's summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
...four years that have just passed, the church leaders have withheld criticism . . . From now on, the responsibility for what happens in Germany will fall more & more on German shoulders...
...concerned: do not fall into the illusion that a government of violence and dishonesty is a necessary channel for the scientific view of the world, to which the future supposedly belongs. Such a future could only be a future in which man can no longer...
Franklin is not too hopeful about the immediate future of his railroad. He expects Pennsy's 1949 freight volume to fall 15% behind 1948, but anticipates better things by the end of 1950. He will not be president for long after that. Railroaders guessed he will be moved up when Clement leaves the chairmanship and Operating Vice President James M. Symes (rhymes with whims), 51, will take over the throttle. An up-from-the-ranks man also, Jim Symes has great visions of the Pennsy's future, once hopefully proclaimed: "The railroads have a potential travel market that...
...Fall & Rise. By 1930 the Bank of Italy caught up with its prestige and size: it became the Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n. A.P. retired again. But soon he disagreed with the way his interests were being run, and rode back into power on a wave of proxies...