Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Airlines' 62,000 stockholders last week went a grim warning from President C. R. Smith: so sharp is the profit slide for the U.S. airlines that they will either "return to Government subsidy or else they will go bankrupt." In 1961's first quarter, American, second biggest U.S. carrier, was deep in the red. In 1960, despite record revenues of nearly $2 billion, the nation's twelve domestic carriers together showed a profit of only $1,000,000. Back in 1949, when airlines were only doing one-fourth of the business they do now, they earned...
...Germans with a conscience, the coming weeks would be grim. "We will be spared nothing," noted Hamburg's Die Zeit. "And this we do not want, of course...
...Baker's Wife. It is grim stuff for those who have comfortably and vaguely given the French Revolution a retrospective blessing as a Good Thing-Lafayette and all that. The heirs of the French Enlightenment behaved at times like Mau Mau. Parts of butchered bodies were carried on pikes through the streets, and children played in the gutters with severed heads, and in the official Terror the carnage reached a truly modern scale (1,285 deaths at the guillotine in 45 days in Paris alone...
Plant Pathologist Arthur James Pil grim, chief of Boeing's Life Support Systems Research, is proud of his group's success, yet he has no illusions that algae will join the crews of spaceships for quite some time. In principle, algae are ideal, requiring nothing but the sunlight filtered through a spaceship's windows to regen erate oxygen and dispose of CO2. But they demand a lot of water to live happily; the Boeing system contains 80 gal lons, weighing more than 600 Ibs. Pilgrim is sure that this prohibitive weight can be reduced drastically...
...been questioned, it is significant as well as ironic that it was produced by Murrow himself while on the staff of CBS news. In defending his suppression, Murrow contended that he had produced the film "solely for domestic presentation." This is a feeble excuse. If Murrow means that the grim portrayal of the migrant worker was exaggerated, he should say so. However, in view of the unquestioned integrity of Murrow's previous documentaries, this hypothesis seems highly untenable...