Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British television has had a straighter, though slower growth than its U.S. cousin. In all Britain, there is only one telecasting station (in London's Alexandra Palace), and there are only about 30,000 television sets, mostly in the London area...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...
...Word from the West Coast. Inevitably, the islands' growth and boom brought labor troubles. There had been occasional strikes of workers before the war, but none had been very effective. Compared with conditions in many a U.S. mining town, living conditions were good; the benevolently paternal Big' Five provided free housing and free medical service, the climate was salubrious. Then came Harry Bridges, the crow-beaked, fellow-traveling boss of the West Coast longshoremen, bearing another kind of gospel to Hawaii...
...these lost. Of course the fiction has its flaws, but they are the same kind of shortcomings that can be found in the works of any good writer, not the puerile once generally found in college literary magazines. The excellence of this issue may be due to its inevitable growth, or it may be just an accident. Give a burnt offering that it is not the latter...
...Exile (Fairbanks; Universal) is one of those shy wildflowers which occasionally spring up almost unnoticed in the Hollywood hothouse. But because of its forced growth, half the freshness is off the bloom...