Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along the line...
This willingness seemed to be the reason he had been picked to help supervise the billion-dollar airlines industry. "If they're looking for someone with an expert knowledge of the aviation industry," said he, "they've got the wrong guy. What I know about the CAB and its problems is no different from what the average citizen knows about it from reading the newspapers...
Public Service. Most of the large companies also go in for elaborate service systems. Salesmen, or acousticians, with carefully tuned voices, fit customers with an aid, and help them over the troublesome adjustment period...
...scale of gracious sentimentality. The moral complexities of the subject are dealt with so shyly that one can scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole hog in daring-i.e., to tackle so powerful a subject, entrust it to strong men with bold ideas, guarding only against artiness and pretension-would be in serious danger of turning out a major...
...help the publicity campaign along, a couple of holy statues in the church where she lies turn, with a mysterious rumble, as if to get a better look at her. The simple folk of the congregation are sure it is a miracle. Their priest (Frank Sinatra) is afraid the floor just sagged, and makes a carefully equivocal statement about the incident. But whether or not the miracle is good enough for Mother Church, it is plenty good enough for Hollywood. Arrangements are made to release the picture right away, the receipts to go into the finest hospital money...