Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Katayama's favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
Visitors to McCormick's office find him sitting in lonely magnificence behind a great marble desk that dwarfs grandfather Medill's plain wooden one, standing near by. When they get up to leave, they find no exit. Sometimes McCormick lets them stand there, in mounting confusion; then, with a glacial chuckle, he taps a kickplate in the baseboard and a panel in the wall springs open. He is enough of a gadget-lover to wear a watch on each wrist. One is a fancy computing chronometer. "Tells what day it is, too," he says. "Very convenient when traveling...
Market In Grey. Solely responsible for this state of affairs was the "grey market daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price...
...Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...MARCH OF TIME) is a scoop by a British UNRRA cameraman, Peter Hopkinson, who has made more intimate shots of Russian life than most foreigners manage to, and has succeeded in bringing his film out uncensored. There are revealing glimpses of plain Russians in the streets, in hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty...