Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Charles E. Merrill, the directing partner who runs the firm: "The financial industry has its roots deep in every part of the nation. America's industrial machine is owned at the grass roots* where it should be owned and not in some mythical 'Wall Street...
...performance of Miss Bergman, very little can be said; the few incidents in which the camera allowed her to act were marred for this observer by recognition of some familiar acting tricks which she has used too repeatedly to be now excusable. My firm belief that Miss Bergman is a fine actress was shaken but not yet shattered. Since she is a partial producer of this monstrous epic, however, her taste and judgment are surely suspect...
...Graham case: proof of membership in organizations that have turned up on the "subversive" lists released by Clark or the Un-American Activities Committee. Being a member in any of these groups is considered adequate grounds for rejection; one young executive of Federal Telephone and Telegraph, a New Jersey firm which turns out considerable material for AEC, was fired when it turned up that he had belonged to a black-listed "Student Union" at N.Y.U. six years before the war. There have been many similar cases; the AEC's decision has shown how groundless and wasteful these...
...with Europe, which ECA hopes to smooth, was still rocky. When Cleveland's Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than a third of it from Ohio...
...Said Distributor Joe Burstyn, whose firm imported Paisan, Open City and other highly successful foreign films, "When I see what a few young people with good ideas can do when they take a camera and go out on the streets of New York, I wonder why the hell we go overseas to look for good pictures...