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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London's largest hall six nights running...
Italy and France this winter, ably explained the situation: "Comrades, you must learn to criticize more and be criticized more. ... I confess that we committed a sin of naivete." The sin was that the Italian Communist Party had Sacrificed effectiveness for size. It was the world's largest outside Russia, but some of its members were incompletely disciplined. Said Togliatti: "We failed to renew the whole Italian social structure. . . . This error . . . forced us on the defensive when we should have been on the offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France...
...Spectator had a lot of territory to cover, and no Addison & Steele to help cover it. Since the days of Bret Harte's Overland Monthly, the Western U.S. has had no highbrow magazine of any weight. To help fill the vacuum, 23 colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year. It had not yet grown to the stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went...
...days after G.E.'s announcement, Teletone and Trav-ler put out their new $9.95 sets. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp., the largest maker of small sets in the industry, came out with a 1948 list that showed some impressive price cuts. Its cheapest model was down 20% to $16.95; and it hoped to hold on to the middle-bracket market with a combination radio phonograph at $99.95 and a four-tube A.M.-P.M. set at $49.95 (almost a 50% cut from last year...
...Ceiling. The British Overseas Airways Corp., largest of Britain's three government-owned airlines, reported that it lost about $32,500,000 in its first year of postwar commercial operations (ending in March 1947). BOAC blamed most of the loss on the uneconomic planes it has been forced...