Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William L. Clayton, U. S. Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, has been engaged in conferences with top British officials for several days...
...weekly sports Record, (circ. 180,000), something for the kiddies called France Soir-Jeudi, a slick monthly, Réalités, which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women's weekly magazine with New Yorkerish touches...
...feet, is now exporting nearly $12 billion a year more than it is importing. Up to now, the gap has been filled by hoarded dollar balances, gold reserves, loans and credits. But these dollar balances are being used up so fast that in Manhattan last week, Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs warned: "The level of our foreign trade in the immediate future will be largely determined by the volume of American aid and assistance. At the moment, there remain less than $5 billion of unused governmental commitments, plus the resources of the International Bank...
...they worked, Farmer Morrison, short, fat and overalled, wore a worried look. The harvest of his months-long labor was in the hands of an outsider: Thomas L. Dupree, a big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (228 lbs.) tramp harvester who had come in from Kansas with his caravan of combines, trucks and harvest hands. But Morrison's worries were nearly over. Swiftly, Dupree and his crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat...
...June Screen Writer cracked out with a parody by Screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond, which tells the story of J. Arthur Rank's second visit to Hollywood as Lewis Carroll might have told...