Word: parte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Part of this volume, the committee found, had indeed come from luxury goods. Example: The Marine PX at Quantico, Va. had refrigerators, $250 cameras, television sets and outboard motors in stock...
...keep it up. Furthermore, it got that spacious look by having a lot of unused space, which Grandmother could afford when her house was built. Perhaps the home-builder should try something new. Flat-roofed, wide-windowed homes that looked queer ten years ago have since become a decorative part of the residential landscape Every major school of architecture in th U.S. emphasizes the modern, and thi year every honor award presented by thi American Institute of Architects in thi residential field went to a modern house...
...Army officers received shares of stock worth $2,000 in return for "part-time services" to a company that "shortly thereafter" obtained Government contracts of more than...
Warren pinned most of the blame for overpayments on the Contract Settlement Act of 1944, which permitted Government agencies to settle contracts in full before final auditing by Warren's office. He had long advocated part payments, up to 75%, before final auditing. As it was, Warren had recovered $474,717 in "voluntary" rebates from overpaid contractors. More might have been recovered, he said, if Government contract agencies had rot "devoted their efforts to defending the excessive settlements." Last week, as Warren turned his evidence over to the Department of Justice for prosecution, Congress ordered an investigation...
...Security Pictures; Columbia) suffers from a piece of inspired miscasting. Originally written by Philip Yordan as the story of a Pennsylvania Polish family, the play became a resounding Broadway hit five years ago after it had been adapted for an all-Negro cast by Producer Harry Wagstaff Gribble. The part of Anna, a generous, warmhearted girl gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard, a skin...