Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans had come to accept the proposition that "the Marshall Plan is a success." The proposition was true, up to a point. Yet Americans were also learning that, in the battle for the West's survival, every success leads only to the anteroom of another crisis. Last week ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman flew to Paris, and into a new anteroom...
...lovely time," said Williams. "It isn't such a bad place, really." His assignment: writing a screen play from his stage hit, The Glass Menagerie. His latest experience: "I worked with [Warner Producer] Jerry Wold. We get along perfectly. We were in complete agreement on every point . . . Well, we did have to compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn't see how I could do it, but, of course, I realized that if I didn't, someone else would . . . There's no use going out there with a chip...
...rith denounced the gift as "probably the most vicious use of wealth that our generation has seen." The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League petitioned Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson to remove the school from the list of preparatory schools whose curriculums are acceptable to West Point...
Dust to Dust. Long before Waksman began his work on soil, scientists had noted that if a diseased body is buried, the point of burial does not become a plague spot. Instead, something in the soil destroys the germs. It was proved that micro-organisms were doing the police job. But how, exactly, did one microorganism destroy another? By eating it? Beating it to the feed trough? Chemical warfare...
Like a man walking on the ceiling, the stock market last week continued to delight and mystify onlookers. In nose-thumbing defiance of all the gloom over strikes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market blithely kept on rising, for the fourth week in a row. With a 4.1 point gain during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke through the high mark (190.19) of a year ago, when Wall Street confidently expected a Republican victory, and reached...