Word: pencilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME researchers call their "bible." It catalogues sources of information on almost every possible news subject, and every one of TIME'S 55 researchers has a copy. Of course the researchers supplement this book with many other procedures to "block that boner" (for example, they are required to pencil a dot over every word in every article to show they have checked it)-and in addition, six or more writers and editors work on every story...
...nearly a month, Moscow's censors had hardly touched blue pencil to any correspondent's copy (TIME, Nov. 19). But Randolph Churchill, the conceited son of a great man, was still being censored...
...Prices. The Federal Government prepared to taper off its $1.8 billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
...chief claim to fame-he paints with colors that are as loud as a Marine band, as subtly harmonious as a Bach cantata. But "what counts most in a picture," says 76-year-old Matisse, "is drawing and composition." Last week 22 of his black-&-white pen-&-pencil drawings went on view at the Manhattan gallery of his son, Pierre Matisse. It was the first show to come out of France since the war, and it revealed the French master at his joyful best...
...supported the May bill. Some, fed up with Army bureaucracy, asked in vain for further hearings on the bill. Some thought that the current concepts of control ignored the real nature of pure research. Said one such doubter: "A lot of nuclear research is done with a brain, a pencil and a piece of paper. How can you control that...