Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally the coalition's cocksureness and the Fair Dealers' despair were both exaggerated by the events of the past fortnight. But the Dixiegop, which looked like a new phenomenon to Wayne Morse and a curious hybrid to C.I.O., had been around in one form or another in dozens of Congresses, and it was a species that died hard. No one knew that better-now -than Fair Dealer Harry Truman...
This week, after a fortnight in the Florida sun, he was back in Washington to try out his new good-neighbor policy at firsthand. Any break between the President and Congress, he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was mainly in the imagination of "troublemakers" who "start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard." If anyone wanted to junk the Fair Deal, it was the pressure groups, and the worst of them all, he said, was the real-estate lobby, "the real enemy of the American home...
Tage Bolander, Paris manager for TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, turned up in New York City a fortnight ago with an encouraging report of the state of TLI's operations in Western Europe. Said he, in part...
Another West Coast regional magazine, Pacific Pathways (circ. 21,000), a four-color vacation magazine aimed at the California tourist trade, came to the end of the road. Last week, it sold its title and subscription lists to Fortnight (circ...
When Burlington Mills Corp. (Bur-Mil), largest U.S. weaver of rayon goods, slashed its prices 10% to 25% a fortnight ago, its 52-year-old Chairman J. (for James) Spencer Love made a calculated gamble. He was betting that the price of rayon fiber, which Burlington has to buy to weave its fabrics, would soon come down enough to make up the difference...