Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss, Paul Hoffman, was a happy man. After arguing over the matter for weeks, the 16 Marshall Plan nations and Western Germany agreed among themselves last week on how to whack up ECA's $4,875,000,000 (see INTERNATIONAL). It was one of the few times in recent history that the European nations had agreed on anything. Hoffman dared to hope that that cooperation, born out of desperation, was a milestone on the road to economic sanity...
...China in 1937 with his blonde Russian wife. Of privileged financial big shots he once said: "If you do not scare them, they will scare you." Last week he had Shanghai's fat merchants badly scared. Before a cheering "Youth Army" audience Chiang declared: "It does not matter if pork and perfume disappear from the markets. So long as the people are not starved to death, it does not matter if all the department stores and big restaurants are closed . . . Our new economic policy is a socialistic revolutionary movement...
Besides providing a starting point for the understanding of how polio gets around, the new technique of watching the virus at its dirty work may help in early diagnosis-a very important matter...
What's the matter with U.S. stamps? What, or who, makes them so ugly? The latest atrocity, the Poultry Industry "Commemorative" issued last week (see cut), was right down to standard. Alongside the stamps of France, Belgium or Switzerland, the new U.S. stamp designs look crude and amateurish. How come...
...season opened on Broadway last week-with a play that closed after seven performances. Called Sundown Beach, it was a sad little thing in both subject matter and treatment-a bungled tale of flyers who had cracked up mentally in the war and were trying to get out of a convalescent hospital back into life. The new season's second offering, Morey Amsterdam's Hilarities, was far more gaily conceived but not much more happily executed. It proved to be a generally cheesy vaudeville show redeemed here & there by a sort of primitive showmanship...