Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the world waited for something more solid than speculation to come out of the most hush-hush series of conferences since the war, there were certain facts and probabilities to keep in mind. One was that the Kremlin would probably ot be willing to lift the Berlin blockade in return for a mere agreement to confer...
Nurselike, Nehru flitters up & down India, watching, scolding, praising, teaching. His Western-trained mind knows how much India has to learn-and how quickly. The civil service, the press, the schools are in no shape to do the job. Nehru is the thin link between the 300,000,000 people and their government. Recently, Nehru took a trip to Madras province which typified the work of a unique statesman in shaping a new nation. He traveled 3,500 miles by plane, made twelve ex tempore speeches and 18 public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild...
...miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change its mind and give the U.S. air bases, the survey will be well worth its cost...
...employees-and the operagoing public-really stood to lose by the shutdown. The unions were sure the Met was out to get them. Obviously stunned by the shutdown, they met together this week to see whether, by modifying their demands, they could change the board's mind. If they did, the Met might yet open this fall, possibly several weeks late. But the board expressed no such hope: it promised only to "consider ways & means" of resuming "another year...
That was just what publicity-wise Christian Dior had in mind. He had already obtained quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, signed up a team of U.S. assistants. This fall he hopes to start mass-producing a line of about 90 dresses to wholesale in the U.S. at $59.75 and up. Though they will have "wing" and "cyclone" effects, the dresses will be a "conservative evolution" of his Paris models, designed with one eye on U.S. tastes and the other on the limitations of machine production...