Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both senses. Edgar Bergen spins a new version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but while the beanstalk flourishes nicely, Bergen's tale doesn't. The reason why Bongo was cut short probably stems from Hollywood's fronetic fear of Communists; but it seems too bad that the witch-hunt has finally extended to make-believe hears...
...Britain's New Towns" will be the subject of a lecture by F.J. Osborn, English municipal planner, tomorrow at 8:15 o'clock in the New Lecture Room of Hunt Hall...
Fine Feathers. The expedition had a Gilbert & Sullivan air about it, as Author Manning tells it. Emin Pasha, the object of the hunt, was an eccentric German doctor whose real name was Eduard Schnitzer. Though he had fled to the almost inaccessible interior of Equatorial Africa, he was afraid somebody would try to "rescue...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. faced big losses on its new two-engined transport, the 3-0-3, after United Air Lines (which had ordered 50 of the 84 ordered) canceled its $16 million contract. Even Douglas, now busy with its DC-6, felt shaky. Douglas' comptroller, Ralph V. Hunt, told the commission of the industry's "losses of record proportions, mounting costs, and a steady shrinking of working capital resources . . . makeshift devices ... to stave off insolvency or bankruptcy...
Like thrifty housewives on a shopping tour, a congressional subcommittee swept on from New England into New York last week. It fingered and compared price tags on hats, sweaters, kitchenware and many other items. In its hunt for the cause of the latest upsurge in prices, it listened to scores of witnesses. After two weeks of hearings, the committee came to one conclusion: the blame could not be placed on middlemen or retailers...