Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Report Cards. When Schwertz told the parents' clubs that he wanted a remedial reading class, the dads and mothers quickly agreed, though no other public school had one. They bought him a projector to show documentary movies in class, a camera so the school could make movies...
...advance. Said the manager: "We're swamped." Said Weill, who has already made $2,000 in royalties from the piece: "There are little opera companies all over the country which are crying for just this sort of thing ... If I had three of these one-act operas to make a full evening's entertainment, they would make a living for both composer and librettist...
Slichter thought that, paradoxically, production would keep going down through July. That would make people feel more pessimistic than ever. Said Slichter: "The revival will start . . . while gloom is still thick and while the price level is still falling . . . Each month that consumption exceeds production strengthens the foundation for recovery...
Manhattan's swelling Puerto Rican community has provided a lush bonanza tor nonscheduled U.S. airlines. For two years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look...
Died. Alexander Fell Whitney, 76, militant $17,500-a-year president (since 1928) of the 216,000-strong Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; of a heart attack; in Bay Village, Ohio. Whitney once vowed to unseat President Truman after the unsuccessful 1946 rail strike ("You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and you can't make a President out of a ribbon salesman"). He later backtracked and gave Truman all-out support. Said the President in his message of condolence: "[He] became . . . the exemplar of the philosopher's teaching that...