Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an observer, like Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, cried that this was another "step toward socialism." It was hardly that-yet. But it was a shrewd political move designed to scare steelmen into making more steel. It also put out the welcome mat for such companies as Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star got its start with a $25 million war-surplus blast furnace which it bought in 1947 for $7,500,000 (TIME, April 7, 1947). Last week Lone Star's President Eugene B. Germany called on Truman to discuss an RFC loan...
Last summer, Oliva Paz took time off and went to the U.S. on an official mission to buy cars for top brass. In Washington, he saw President Harry Truman, presented him with a handsome gold encrusted bombilla (the gourd from which maté is drunk) on behalf of Perón. When he got back to Buenos Aires, Oliva Paz found Perón's mouth in worse shape than ever. The effects of a bad case of pyorrhea were beginning to show. He lanced the gums, then Perón demanded a specialist...
Originally a play, and once before produced as a movie,* the new version of the story resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect...
...professor of philosophy couldn't break the half nelson, though he struggled on. But last week many U.S. concertgoers were pinning the problem to the mat in various ways...
...gone in opposite directions since the last time they met (Wesleyan has lost its ace and Captain Frank Bowles; Harvard has gained power in the lightweight brackets while retaining its experienced heavyweights), the match is not expected to be any more searching a test of the Crimson's mat prowess than Saturday's party...