Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toronto would undoubtedly be flattered by the suggestion that its area extends so far, but it just doesn't happen...
...things wrong with this picture-some of them basic. The average lonely soldier in New York doesn't have the good luck to pick up Judy Garland, or true love, or anything remotely resembling either. But it could be justly argued that such things do occasionally happen-and ought to happen more often. Once you accept the basic premise, however, there are still drawbacks. The young lovers wouldn't be likely to spend the night so whimsically, to lose each other so casually in the subway, to find each other if they did, or to run into quite...
...industry has vastly expanded its research laboratories, as well as its factories, during the war. What will happen to them in peace? Will the laboratories, too, slow, down when war orders stop? Industrialists think...
...press is on exhibition at this conference and a lot of showoffs in the business aren't doing it any good. The wild predictions about what's going to happen and the utterly irresponsible experting by amateurs and cookoos ... don't reflect any credit on the once-proud fourth estate...
...imperfect as other places - perhaps a little more so. The local theater owner still complains of the week he showed Lost Horizon. "The farmers saw no sense in the damned thing, Shangri-La, snow one minute and warm sunlight with green leaves the next. Such things simply could not happen, they say - and would rather see something that is at least pos sible, like Shirley Temple...