Word: pare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking pilots by Dec. 1. But 15,000 other unorganized employees, bounced by the company without notice when flights were suspended, were less lucky. T.W.A. had optimistically tripled its force for overseas expansion. A sag in postwar transatlantic air traffic last week moved three other U.S. airlines to pare their payrolls (see BUSINESS). T.W.A. might prefer to keep its wings clipped...
...Passed and sent to the House the La Follette bill which would: 1) pare down the 33 overlapping Senate committees to 15; 2) provide each Congressman with an administrative assistant; 3) raise Congressional pay from $10,000 to $15,000; 4) provide pensions for Congressmen retiring after...
...Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, which broke ground for U.S. documentaries...
...cannot apologize. It cannot retract any thing. ... It simply ripens to its inevitable explosion. This explosion we have to pre pare, like anarchists, with the utmost in genuity and malice." But young Isherwood soon discovers that he is going to be taught far more than the ways of the movie. Each day Director Bergmann flies off from the romantic plot of Prater Violet at a thousand tangents...
...popular thrillers (Journey Into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). To gather his material, Ambler spent about five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...