Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian raids caused the black-marketeers to increase their vigilance but they stayed in business. Money-changers with gaudy new marks in both hands shuffled along, murmuring: "East for West, West for East." The rate went up from 3 to 3.2 East marks for one West mark. Two unshaven old men, selling potatoes from heavy knapsacks, stared at a barbed-wire fence put up by the British. One said: "It won't be long until they have barbed wire all over the city." The other said: "Come along. The air is too thick around here...
Peruvian Ambassador Alfredo Benavides had an idea, and to sell it he invited the heads of the diplomatic missions in Ottawa to come around for a drink. The idea: a gift to mark the retirement of U.S. Ambassador Ray Atherton (TIME, Aug. 23), dean of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. Ambassador Benavides had no trouble persuading 32 of his colleagues. A silver cigar box, they decided, would be just the thing, and it should be engraved with the signatures of the mission heads...
...Winchell returns from vacation to turn out froth and fripperies of his own, which are more spiteful and more readable. Turn of the Screw. One of the most prolific writers in the business, an expert in the sentimental, tough-guy school of prose, horn-rimmed Jack Lait has inherited Mark Bellinger's crown as king of the hacks. He figures that he has pounded out 1,500 short stories, besides 17 books, eight plays and millions of words of news. "Fiction," he rasps, "is a cinch, automatic. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words...
Street with No Name. A skillful, conventional semi-documentary about G-men and young criminals, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME...
...reasons were plain. On tolls ranging from $1 and $1.50 for motorcycles and cars to $10 for heavy trailer trucks, the eight-year-old highway has shown a handsome profit every year. All during wartime gas rationing, the commission managed to keep the annual net above the million mark by promoting the turnpike's time-saving advantage (more than three hours on the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia run) for trucks. Last year, with some 3,000,000 vehicles passing over it, the highway cleared nearly...