Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the committee would look into the commodity holdings of one of its own members: Oklahoma's Democrat Elmer Thomas. After his wife's name had bobbed up on a list of cotton traders, Senator Thomas said he would send his brokerage records to the committee...
...hard to figure who is at fault, or why, in the case of the much heralded Italian newcomer, Valli. Her beauty, or better-than-beauty, has an almost reptilian fascination; she is, indeed, the most fatale-looking femme since Garbo. But it remains an open question whether she can act. Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women...
...gross national product (total goods and services produced) was $230 billion, 13% higher than the record peacetime peak of 1946. Like the New Look, some of the astronomical figures of dollar volume were not so impressive as they seemed. The rise in the gross national product was due in part to price rises. But in items turned out, 1947's industrial production was 23% above 1946's surprising total...
...scientists who went there to look around for better jobs called it the "slave market." The official name was the 114th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Cooperating Associated Societies...
...brightened by what the controlled economies of the world, notably Britain and Russia, had failed to do. Those who shuddered at the rise in U.S. prices-and thought that there was some painless magic in controls to bewitch inflation and the laws of economics-had only to look at Russia. There, what the London Times called the "baleful Bourbons of Muscovy" ruthlessly tried to end their high prices-and low production-simply by taking spending money away from the people. Nor had the controlled economies been able to supply any incentives in 1947 to match free enterprise...