Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not sell to Germans under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act. U.S. Occupation officers indicated that it would help them if Germans could get TIME, too. After negotiations with the U.S. War Department, which administers the Act, and with the State Department, the latter licensed us to do business in occupied Germany. Our license allows us to sell TIME to Germans provided we use the proceeds only for our own editorial and business expenditures in Germany...
...against the whole world. . . . In this structure, composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, never ascending circles. Life will not be a pyramid with an apex sustained by the bottom but an oceanic circle whose center will be individually always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of villages, till at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals. . . . In this there is no room for machines . . . that would concentrate power in a few hands...
...synthetic industry except the creation of a "rubber supervisory body" to keep an eye on developments. For, said the committee "it is quite possible that cost and quality improvements may be such as to enable synthetic rubber to compete in a free market with natural rubber after the latter is again in ample supply...
Pierre Bonnard's latter-day success is galling to some Parisian moderns, who think he is an old fogy. He has never followed the fads of Parisian painting, never gone surrealist or cubist, never painted a face with one eye or three. Many of Bonnard's pictures fall into a kind of sentimental fuzziness that reminds people of Renoir...
...said FORTUNE magazine this week, after a long hard look at the nation's airlines (What's Wrong with the Airlines). Except for scenery and safety, and the latter is an increasingly big "question mark," FORTUNE found nearly every phase of air travel in a mess. Examples...