Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things are, we just don't have the paper to print the test in TIME'S more-than -a -million, copies. But we are still distributing the questions in pamphlet form to hundreds of schools and colleges, clubs and discussion groups where TIME is the basis for the study of current affairs -and we are saving a few copies for TIME subscribers who want to measure their knowledge of the news...
Bulbous Economist Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Danish-born Banker Hans Christian Sonne (pronounced Sonny) co-authored a 25? pamphlet (Fiscal & Monetary Policy) for the National Planning Association. Although the pamphlet attacks the whole problem of main taining high employment and vigorous private enterprise, its most striking features are its tax proposals. Economist Ruml slapped it down on the public counter at the psychological moment: just as Congress is preparing to take up the subject, just when many other people's ideas on the subject are coming to a boil...
...C.I.O. was hopping mad because a pamphlet that presented the steel workers' case for pay increases was returned by Army censors as unmailable to soldiers...
Bishop Oxnam has made three trips to the Soviet Union. His admiration for Russia earned him a page and a half in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. In 1936, when Dr. Oxnam was made Bishop of the Omaha Area, Mrs. Billing got out a special anti-Oxnam pamphlet which messengers distributed at Omaha's eight Methodist churches...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...