Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a special air-cargo rate that would make this operation economically possible was approved by the U.S. Government and, in May of 1941, our Air Express edition (now called Latin American) began. It was printed on fast offset presses in Jersey City, N.J. and carried by Pan American Airways planes to 20 countries in South and Central America, thereby cutting delivery time by three weeks. We also worked out a technique of photographing TIME'S editorial copy on film, which could be rushed by air to Latin American printing plants...
...will be tried for treason), won the Bollingen Prize of $1,000 for The Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance of the award, and would, in principle, deny the validity of that objective perception of value on which any civilized society must rest...
...there is a theoretical way of "seeing around the earth" and guiding a missile that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...
Monte Carlo's Casino, out for the U.S. dollar, decided that the way to get it was in a good old American way. Last week, Louis Ceresol, boss of the money-losing Casino (TIME, May 3), and one of his croupiers visited Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. to learn how to shoot craps...
Rank & file U.S. movie exhibitors may not care much about cinematic art for its own sake, but they know what they want from Hollywood. Last week the exhibitors drew some conclusions from their box-office receipts. After polling its exhibitor-members across the nation, the Allied States Association announced: Hollywood's pictures (and advertising) have been truckling to the tastes of "sophisticated Broadway audiences" and "professional reviewers," and run a serious risk of becoming "class entertainment...