Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threats came from minor officials, but their fine Italian handwriting looked suspiciously like that of A.F. of M.'s big boss, James C. (for Caesar) Petrillo. Ever since he became tsar of U.S. musicians, ex-Trumpeter Petrillo has considered the patrician Boston Symphony one of the chief thorns in his sensitive side. Union pressure has kept the Boston orchestra from broadcasting since 1939. Two years ago Petrillo forced RCA-Victor to stop recording the Boston Symphony, then exulted: "They're through...
Around these sleek contemporary figures, Novelist Powell groups a host of minor characters as bright and synthetic as a string of dime-store diamonds. Together they create an illusion of Manhattan high life a year or so before Pearl Harbor. "A sucker age," Novelist Powell calls it, "an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget." Gold-digging Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly...
...have been covering the Houses in the slow process of talking to each man, attempting to educate him about the life-saving need for plasma in our armed forces now. In addition, the canvassers, all with at least one personal blood donation to their credit, point out the only minor inconveniences and negligible discomfitures caused the donors, who are also excused from exercise...
...their own cars, predicted that the motors would soon shake themselves to pieces; the transmission and rear end would eventually break down from the unnatural pulsation of the drive shaft; the pumping action of the unused pistons would jam the dead cylinders with incompressible oil. Instead of being a minor repair job, Sun's plan, they thought, would mean factory rebuilding-taking out the unused pistons and connecting rods, putting in new manifolds. The mildest criticism was that, using the Sun system, it is impossible to go slower than 18 m.p.h. in high gear. Best opinion to date...
This week it looked as though WLB's decision was alread working minor wonders. Everything was quiet around Alcoa's Cleveland plant and production breezed along. But far more important was the fact that businessmen all over the U.S. gave a sigh of relief-if WLB sticks to its decision the day of reckless, hell-raising, rabble-rousing labor leaders is over. To a nation fighting for its life, that is as it should...