Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate subcommittee started it with its investigation of "five-percenters," the influential men-about-Washington who get Government contracts for businessmen for a fee. Almost every time the subcommittee lowered its dredge last week, it scooped up Amateur General Harry Vaughan. Each time he was hauled, dripping and protesting, into public view, it became more obvious that he had been using his general's stars, his White House telephone and his place in Harry Truman's affections for a dubious purpose: to help his cronies get Government favors and big profits...
...Music (Mon. 6:15 p.m.. CBS). First of a five-day series on "everything from bebop to longhair." Guest: Artie Shaw...
Less Work. Nevertheless, there was little doubt that business was on the downgrade. The Federal Reserve Board's production index, which had stood at around 166% of the 1935-39 average in late June, was estimated to have dropped another five points, off 34 points from 1948's postwar peak. In early July, the Department of Commerce reported, unemployment had edged over the 4,000,000 mark for the first time since 1942. Though there were an estimated 59.7 million at work, more than in any year except 1948, in some areas there were long lines...
...other extreme, the slump in textiles and jewelry had thrown approximately one in five out of work in Providence. But, paradoxically, there was enough buying power left in slump-struck Providence so that butchers could sell lamb chops at from...
Anna Lucasta (Security Pictures; Columbia) suffers from a piece of inspired miscasting. Originally written by Philip Yordan as the story of a Pennsylvania Polish family, the play became a resounding Broadway hit five years ago after it had been adapted for an all-Negro cast by Producer Harry Wagstaff Gribble. The part of Anna, a generous, warmhearted girl gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard...