Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign anyway. Last week in Washington he made a speech before a dinner-meeting of Jersey bigwigs. Trumpeted Senator Hawkes: "Hatred must be erased from our hearts. I have never hated anyone in my life longer than overnight. There is one exception-and he lies buried in Hyde Park...
Canada was desperately hoping that the Hyde Park Agreement could be kept alive. The oral pact made in 1941 between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King had treated Canada like a 49th state in sharing scarce commodities-especially oil and steel. Last week, in a speech in New York City, Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S., made a bold bid for perpetual preference...
...wartime we [shared], under the Hyde Park Agreement, the things needed to keep the production of both countries at the highest level. It worked, and made no small contribution to victory. If this . . . was good in war-good for both countries and good for our allies-why should we not with profit continue the same principle . . . indefinitely...
Marseille, a city of small buildings (the largest is nine stories) had never seen anything just like it. Neither had any other town. Under construction last week was a glassy 17-story apartment house, perched lightly on stilts, to stand in the middle of an eight-acre park (traffic will move freely underneath it). To get this modernity built, France's Ministry of Reconstruction had set aside $3 million and lifted all rationing on concrete and steel...
Movies have always been expert at picturing cities, but Treasure excels most of them in the streets, park benches, eateries, bars and flophouses that are the backgrounds for its opening reels. The main characters make most so-called simple men in the movies look two-dimensional and sentimentalized. In the superb camera work (by Ted McCord), there is not one fancy or superfluous shot...