Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearest thing to the old WPB -but still only a distant cousin, since many of the WPB powers will be spread among other departments. The Agriculture Department's Charles Brannan, for example, will control production of food, agricultural equipment, cotton, wool and other textiles. Interior's Oscar Chapman will regulate the production and distribution of electric power, gas, petroleum, coal and other minerals. Wage controls will probably be the special province of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...
Beaver Valley (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is the second in the series of short Technicolored nature documentaries that Walt Disney launched in 1948 with his Oscar-winning Seal Island. Photographed with enormous patience and resourcefulness by Cameraman Alfred G. Milotte, and put together with the sprightly humor of a Disney cartoon, it is an intimate record of wild life in & around a beaver pond in the Rockies...
With the intelligentsia, the picture was not universally popular. When Oscar Wilde saw it, he asked coolly: "Was it all done by hand...
George Willard Smith last week decided to heed his own actuarial tables: at 66, he moved from the presidency into the board chairmanship of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. Into the presidency went affable, sandy-haired O. (for Oscar) Kelley Anderson, 43, onetime Iowa farm boy and longtime crack investment...
...Brackett & Billy Wilder* at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...