Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cocktail Drinkers Need Basic Appeal...
...Room. Younger clerics on Laval's faculty were all for meeting the need. But older heads stood against them: there was no room for business and industry in the place which Bishop de Laval himself had ordained as "a perpetual school of virtue." Not until 1937 did the opposition yield enough to approve a faculty of science. Not until February, 1947, did Laval have a school of commerce...
...another play on their radios; business in downtown movie houses slumped 25%. In Boston, scalpers asked and got as much as $30 for a pair of tickets. One New Yorker, his nose buried in the box scores, tripped over a fire hydrant and banged his head hard enough to need stitches...
...aircraftmaker last week set up a rental agency for airlines that need new planes but lack the cash to buy them. Floyd Odlum, whose Atlas Corp. controls Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., announced that he would form a $50-million-plus company to buy 100 twin-engined, 40-passenger Convair-Liners. (It will also give Convair some badly needed business.) The planes will be rented out to airlines which may buy them later at cost less depreciation. Odlum hopes eventually to finance the planes of other aircraftmakers in the same...
After graduation, at which his classmate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read a paper on the need for a native American literature, Hawthorne went home to his mother's house in Salem and worked at writing. In nine years he borrowed over 700 books from the Salem Athenaeum, a library whose nucleus men like his father had captured, as privateersmen, from the English. Cantwell has looked up the Hawthornes' library record. He deliberately studied New England, reading among other things the files of Salem newspapers during Hawthorne's lifetime. "The books," Cantwell writes, "provide an almost weekly record...