Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other improvements over the rude camp life of World War II. Food was better, mud and duckboards were missing, and television sets, golf courses and swimming pools were close at hand. But many an old soldier, eyeing the young inductees, had an idea that they would soon find themselves in the Same Old Army anyhow...
...ways. Both have become enmeshed in restrictive practices, the employers to shield themselves from the lash of competition, the workers to "spread the work." Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's economic boss, was well aware of all this last summer when he and ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman cooked up the idea of an Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The main purpose was to give Britain-as tactfully as possible-the benefit of the best U.S. practice. The first British reaction was one of outraged pride and suspicion (TIME, Aug. 9). But British industry and trades unions have decided, in the main...
Walter Wanger, 54, who had the courage to invest in Joan and produce it, has "repeatedly gambled on a-little-ahead-of-the-parade movie ideas.- Joan of Arc cost $4,600,000 to film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says...
Principal organizer and president of I.I.I, is William J. Sampson Jr., 51, head of the American Welding & Manufacturing Co. of Warren, Ohio. Big (282 Ibs.), bluff Bill Sampson had his own idea of how a free-enterprise system should be presented. He thought the job should be done locally, that national ad campaigns by big trade and lobbying groups were too general to be effective. "Besides," says he, "there's a feeling that anything that the National Association of Manufacturers or the American Iron & Steel Institute do has the kiss of death...
Paul added that "growing antagonism" to the plaque idea, as exemplified in a Boston Globe editorial last Saturday, might help swing the tide. The editorial stated that "present undergraduate students, so many of whose lives were in pawn" should have the strongest voice in a choice...