Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What little slack there was suddenly disappeared. Industrial production moved up again; the National Industrial Conference Board's consumers' price index shot up to the highest point in its 34-year history; employment, which had been holding steady, began to climb; in July it reached an alltime peak of 61,615,000. The labor shortage, in the words of one depressed Chicago personnel manager, "is worse than steel." And the U.S. had its first $1-a-pound roundsteak...
...industries could point with such pride. There was still a shortage of electricity in the Midwest and along the Pacific Coast, though utility men had worked frantically to expand. They spent $2.3 billion and hoped to spend another $3.3 billion to expand in the next five years. Despite the hopeful speeches of many a steelman that supply would soon meet demand, the great steel shortage was almost as bad at year's end as at the year's start...
Having thus stated its double-feature message, the film even contrives an ending in a happy, hopeful vein. At no point does it give its central anti-war theme the emotional contagion that the same message got in The Search or the Italian-made Shoeshine, both of which dealt movingly with war's impact on children by simply telling a straight story honestly...
...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...
Hamilton's Itinerarium is one of the most candid and engaging travel diaries to come down from a colonial American. It is casual to the point of slightness, a bit snobbish and of little historical importance. But it brings the speech of the time and the look of town & country to the reader in a way historians rarely do. Hamilton was contemptuous .of "aggrandized upstarts" who put on social airs, and he frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City...