Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parallel between today's Texas and the huge industrial development that began on the Pacific Coast a decade ago was apparent to Griffith and Elson, who are from the Pacific Northwest. Said Griffith: "No matter how much you think you are prepared for the Texas story by what you have heard and read, you are astonished by what you see. In a week in Texas, we heard not one real doubt of the future, no talk of recession. Businessman after businessman used the phrase free enterprise without putting quotes around it with their eyes. Texans are spending money...
...TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...
...flying-saucer idea sank into the public mind, all sorts of mysterious swooping things were reported. Policemen in Portland, Ore. saw discs that looked like 'shiny chromium hubcaps." Two pilots n Alabama saw a huge black object bigger than an airliner. A man in Oklahoma City saw a "saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between...
...sounded like the dizziest Hollywood logic, but it was a fact. Box-office grosses, despite a slight recent recovery, had not gone back to the wartime highs. Pictures had moved so fast through the nation's theaters that Hollywood's huge stockpile vas almost exhausted. The big sound stages were suddenly put furiously to work to supply the theaters' demands...
Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields moved into full control of huge Curtiss-Wright Corp. Shields, who had helped the corporation with its financing, was invited in by the directors last December to reorganize the management. President William C. Jordan disagreed with Shields's plan to go outside the aeronautical field to get new business; the company had not done too well making non-aeronautical products. Last week both Jordan and Chairman Guy W. Vaughan, who had stepped out of the presidency when Jordan stepped in, left the company. Shields began shopping for a new president...