Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the U.S. press had got very far, the British hit the ceiling. War Secretary Emanuel Shinwell, who like most other Labor leaders has been free in his denunciation of free-enterprise capitalism as practiced in the U.S., last week cried petulantly: "Our magnificent efforts in the past are being overlooked." Cried the tabloid pro-Laborite Sunday Pictorial: "It is fair to say that the British are riled; in fact, we are damned annoyed...We British are tired of Yankee insults...
Shanghai's past prosperity, he cried, had been built on an "infamous union of imperialism and compradores." Of 6,000,000 people in the city, barely half were engaged in "productive" labor. Therefore, the remedy was to cut its population in half, to change it from "a consumptive to a productive" place by uprooting non-productive citizens and sending them back to the land. Echoed one Red paper: "The ideal city of modern times is the 'garden city,' where the population should not be too large...
...Right now," said a Siamese engineer last week to TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, "the Communists are digging quietly with shovels, instead of blasting with dynamite." The men with the shovels are mostly Chinese; for the past 20 years they have had a monopoly on Communism among the easygoing Siamese. The government gave the Siamese Communist party legal status in 1946 (to win Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., which has had its share of top echelon troubles during the past year, last week got a new president: Roy T. Hurley, director of manufacturing engineering at the Ford Motor Co. He was handpicked by Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields, who took over as Curtiss-Wright's chairman and chief executive officer last April. Shields wanted a man who could cut costs at Curtiss-Wright and lift its sales volume to a profitable level with an additional line of non-aviation products...
...June, Radio Veteran William Sweets, 53, for the past six years director of Gangbusters and Counter-Spy, resigned from both shows. Last week, in his first public statement, he gave his reasons: "I was told that pressure-a campaign of letter-writing complaining of my political views -had led the advertising agencies and sponsors [Pepsi-Cola and General Foods] to decide to renew their contracts only if someone else directed the shows...