Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation and its colleges look forward to a "boom" year. National income hovers around the $200,000,000,000 a year mark, and college enrollment is at its peak. Both federal and college administrators are concerned with the problem of providing living space to satisfy the increased demand. The impact of high prices is felt as severely by the colleges as by any other group in the national structure. In Lehman Hall, Aldrich Durant and his assistant wizards grapple with the same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality of the product without raising the cost...
...Want Gable!" But regrets were not confined to Hollywood. As nothing else could, the sudden break in the flow of movies dramatized the full impact of Britain's dollar-economy program on the United Kingdom. Britons pined out loud for Dick Haymes and other Hollywood stars. Clergymen and educators, who commented that "now at least we can keep the King's English pure," were in the minority. In London, an enraged electrician's wife echoed the cries of thousands of British women: "This is the last straw; we have no one like Gable in British pictures...
Those eager enough to finger the moist covers of reading period assignments yesterday found the pages curling under the impact of close to 100 degree temperature, as a heat wave stretching from New England to Nebraska continued unabated for its third consecutive...
...London stockmarket tumbled sharply under the impact of the Empire crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). A selling wave sent common stocks crashing down eleven points to 119 on the Financial Times index, their worst fall since Dunkirk. Even consols (British Government bonds), which are generally regarded by Britons to be as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, sagged to a two-year low, then rallied slightly. The scare caused a shiver in Wall Street, where the ten-week long upswing in stock prices suddenly halted. The Dow-Jones industrial index dropped 3.85 points from the July high of 187.66. This week...
Though the U.S. has yet to feel the full impact of the new silhouette, it was already provoking some violent opinions. The New York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...