Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-flying intercontinental bombers. The atom bomb would be dropped, but it is not the abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust a nation before it had struck a winning blow...
...back to Hollywood, and getting what enjoyment they could from the desert scenery. On their way through Death Valley they spotted an occasional prospector trudging along beside his burro. "Nobody said anything at first," recalls dark-eyed Johnny Lange, "but then it occurred to us, like spontaneous combustion, you might say, that here was an idea for a song." They forgot the scenery, worked out words & music before they hit Hollywood. Glickman, who owns a small recording company, made a master record of it but did not press any copies. The boys all forgot about...
...insurance refunds is paid out to veterans, there would be a lot more money around. Pondering this, along with the Federal Government's whopping deficit and higher industrial costs created by 1949's pension settlements, Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton last week warned: "You might as well forget about much cheaper manufacturers' products." Although he predicted a drop in business next spring, the U.S. was currently in "a period of creeping inflation...
...Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...
...than expected. Last week Britain's Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank reported that his Odeon Theatres, Ltd. and subsidiaries had lost $9,380,000 on moviemaking in fiscal 1949. Things were so bad, said the man who has been making 50% of Britain's motion pictures, that he might be forced to stop all production after June...