Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chimneys need sweeping at Iken today...
...screening of Home of the Brave, Hollywood's first picture attacking anti-Negro prejudice (TIME, May 9). The Press Club urged members to "see this production [because it] has something important to say on one of the most important problems of our day." What the invitation did not need to say was that only whites will be welcome; the Press Club bars Negroes from its club rooms and from membership...
...farmers of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, who had just begun to harvest the biggest cotton crop in their history, reckoned that the new canal would bring them 1) cheaper freight for their products, 2) lower prices for the steel and other materials they need for plants to process and can seafood and the valley's produce. Three new plants worth about $65 million were already abuilding in Brownsville, partly in expectation of the boom...
Concluded LIFE: "The moviemakers, as the Round Table Editors met them, were earnest and thoughtful men, who represented the good Hollywood . . . The movies need . . . 'more freedom for more men of talent' . . . But [it] must be fought for by the good Hollywood and by the people who believe in freedom . . . From this Hollywood . . . these people can get movies as good as they demand-but demand them they must...
Author Street's historical romances had everything that such books need: swaggering heroes, beautiful women, villainous (and noble) redskins, shocking rapes and seductions and massacres, as well as action everywhere and all the time. If readers tired of the floggings, the snakes, the brains splattered on the deck, the hussies driving strong men to distraction, they were compensated by vivid scenes, like the passage of the ironclad Arkansas through the Union fleet at Vicksburg...