Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington last week some 800 special recordings were hustled by air to radio stations throughout the nation. They bore messages from more than half the members of Congress to their constituents; some were five-minute talks, others were 15-minute question & answer platters. Most were concerned with the congressional news of the week. Local stations broadcast the discs as "a public service ... in the hope that listeners will gain a better understanding of the serious problems confronting our legislators...
...nation we are approaching at a meteoric rate closer and closer to the edge of spiritual darkness and Christian bankruptcy. At the moment, our decencies of life, such as remain, are the coppers of our spiritual capital, which, like our gold reserves, are rapidly diminishing...
...were moved to superlatives. The reserved London Times called it "this massive and relentless play." The Daily Express was ecstatic: "This play seems to lay the soul of America bare, throws across the footlights, flat in your face, all the hopes, fears, frustrations, inhibitions and terrible yearnings of a nation . . ." Stylish first-nighters, equally moved brought back Paul Muni (who played Willy) and his cast for 15 curtain calls. Said one sequined dowager: "I don't think I understood it all, but I certainly feel weak...
...Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
Israel was not giving Ford a monopoly; it also bought, for $1,000,000, 200 heavy duty White Motor Co. trucks. This week, the motor-hungry nation was negotiating a $3,000,000 deal with General Motors, and another $3,000,000 in contracts with seven other U.S. motormakers for a grand total of 4,800 trucks, buses and tractors. In addition, as soon as a formal peace can be signed with its Arab neighbors, Israel hoped to clinch the Ford plant in Haifa...