Word: freer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trade's staple, will have their biggest year yet, with estimated sales of $40,000,000. Items: a new version of the famed Kewpie doll, now making a successful comeback with close to a million orders so far; a doll with the prewar plastic skin; a freer flowing version of the rubber Dydee doll, a wartime casualty...
Last week something got done about it in a hurry. A plum dropped in his lap - the $22,500-a-year tax-freer vice-presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Regretfully, President Truman accepted Harold Smith's resignation, wrote him a glowing farewell : "Besides great ability, you brought to the work fidelity, integrity and loyalty...
...already agreed on lots of blueprints for a masonry-constructed peace. But every time they break ground for an actual structure they hit the bedrock of national interests. Last week word went round Washington that President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes had put off the U.S. crusade for freer world trade until after the November elections. The two ex-Senators knew that when a Congressman scratches a constituent-even a "world-minded" one-he finds a high tariff interest. They did not want to do any scratching before the elections...
...Church* (membership 205); in the afternoon he holds services at St. John's (membership 45). This nimble quick-change act taxes none of Steinmetz' doctrinal convictions. He must be wary only not to lapse into the formalized liturgy of the Episcopal Church on the premises of the freer, more evangelical Congregational Church. "When I enter the Congregational pulpit," says he, "I become a Congregationalist-and vice versa...
Hailed as the successor to "Claudia," "The Enchanted Cottage" maintains that rare quality of its predecessor, the retention of stage devices on the screen. Progressing from "Claudia," it gives the camera a freer rein and escapes the charge of not taking advantage of its medium. Still, there are no airplane duels or automobile chases in "The Enchanted Cottage": the tranquility and reliance on suggestion that characterize the theatre also characterize this movie...