Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers who had never seen a real bombing raid were curious but not much impressed. More than anything else, the demonstration recalled a pre-World War II day in 1933, when a mass flight of obsolescent planes of all sizes-the nation's entire air strength at the time-was also considered quite a thing. The 135 Superfortresses were virtually the entire effective heavy bomber strength of the Strategic Air Command...
...idea for the Mass Education Movement came to spare, spindly Jimmy Yen, now 53, when he was thousands of miles from home. A member of China's scholar aristocracy and a graduate of Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken...
...Britons only, he has shrewdly created the impression in the U.S. that most British movies are up to or better than Hollywood's best, which they are not. But in competing for a bigger share of the world market Rank will have to turn out more & more movies. Mass-production may force him to use ready-made patterns. It is still a question whether he can keep the Bond Street cut that so many of his films now have...
When Lewis Lapham came home to San Francisco after Hotchkiss and Yale ("I'm one of those mass-produced guys"), he wasn't interested in working for his father, then A-H's president. Instead, he wrote a shipping column for Hearst's Examiner, learned about the waterfront and gained a reputation for brains and high spirits. After six years of this, he went to work for A-H and was lent to the Waterfront Employers Association. Shippers think that he had a lot to do with improving labor relations. During the war, when ulcers kept...