Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somehow the Magdalena had to be kept open. Much of the nation's economic life depended on this hardening artery. Said El Colombiano: "Paralysis of the Magdalena would mean a tremendous blow to Colombia. The Magdalena system must be saved from ruin...
...market, right at the top. Nobody was putting out a magazine that cost $150 a year. Last week young Forbes had one in the dummy stage, and was taking a full-page ad in the New York Times next week to announce it. Its name was Nation's Heritage, its high-flown purpose to illustrate "the whole American panorama -the resources, the living patterns, the culture and the tradition of all the people and of all the land...
...Nation's Heritage, a bimonthly, will start out in January with 5,000 copies and a cover painting (printed on linen) by the late Grant Wood. Its readers won't have to do much reading: the magazine will be nine-tenths pictures. It will also be adless (Malcolm's idea, reluctantly approved by B.C.). Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal-it is designed to look impressive on boardroom tables-but figures that many a businessman will want to buy it as a gift (with his name as donor on the inside cover) for his local...
Hromadka, who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1940 to 1947 and is now on the faculty of Prague's Charles University, replied in pungent, accented English: "Even the enormous wealth and the atomic power of the American nation must not deceive us ... The Western nations have ceased to be the exclusive masters and architects of the world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average...
...Bizet made Carmen a classic, but Columbia is bent on making it literally a household word. Thanks to a staggering variety of studio tie-up deals with manufacturers of assorted items, the nation may soon be trying vainly to comb Carmen out of its hair. Already on the Carmen bandwagon as it begins to roll through retailers' showcases and advertising columns from coast to coast: shoes, handbags, cigarettes, hosiery, soap, cosmetics, hats, scarves, hair ornaments, castanets, costume jewelry. An impressive seller in its own right is the "Carmen doll" ($6.98); through 30,000 retailers, it piled...