Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dream. Britain had a surplus of ?350 million to show for 1948, but Cripps explained that he could not actually spend this money. It had all been used up, mostly to wipe out some of the huge national debts. The biggest items in the budget were expenditures for defense and cradle-to-the-grave social security. Cripps smashed the rosy Socialist dream that the "welfare state" could be paid for entirely by soaking the rich. The rich were now all but soaked, and it was Britain's plain people who would have to pay for their "free" medical...
Atlantic-shuttling Lady Astor, visiting Jesse Jones in Houston, dropped in on Fort Worth, found its huge Consolidated Vultee Aircraft plant the thrill of her trip. She would much rather pitch in and work there, she said, than in the British plane factory where she did a wartime stint...
...Serge Koussevitzky got it under way, the audience found No. 2 not at all hard to like. It opened with a quiet conversation between two clarinets-"the loneliest music I know" -symbolizing Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...
...turbulent end of the nineteenth century, the period of fabulous industrial growth, of huge fortunes, of growing industrial armies is one of the most controversial periods of American history. The growing industry created amazing opportunities for profits--some honest and some dishonest...
...great figures of that time. He takes J. Pierpont Morgan, whose name at the turn of the century was the symbol for economic power, and shows his character and motives. Allen asks, "What kind of man was he, who more than any other was responsible for the growth of huge, monopolistic business enterprise...