Word: pots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical 20-years-after revival of a smash hit that pleases most of the people who saw it before; it convinces them that their taste has matured. Only Bert Lahr-as the baggy-pants comic who makes the grade on Broadway, then rapidly and literally goes to pot-gives this baggy-pants production (by co-Author Arthur Hopkins) any authenticity, or even...
Sample of Soekarno's oratory: "Our ideal is an automobile for everybody. . . ." (At present few cars travel Java's pot-holed roads.) "I've just received a letter from a young girl who wants to be an airplane pilot. . . . That's right, hitch your aims to the stars. . . . We can laugh, we can eat and some day we can have clothes. . . . But our ideals will not be realized easily. We must struggle for them...
...great struggle over unification of the armed services, which had the Navy pot-shotting at the Army (and vice versa) for over a year, seemed close to a more or less friendly settlement. The Army & Navy themselves had settled some disputed points, the President had resolved three of the knottiest: he had ruled in favor of a single defense department, three coequal branches, and a Marine Corps under the Navy (TIME, June 24). The one issue on which the Navy had continued to buck its Commander in Chief was his order that all land-based aviation (including anti-submarine patrol...
Boss Wyatt was the one who put the pot on the fire. He wanted RFC to lend up to $90,000,000 to eleven companies, some of which had never built houses, to build prefabricated houses and housing parts. Biggest loan would go to Chicago's Lustron Corp., along with a lease on Chicago's RFC-owned Dodge-Chrysler plant (TIME, Nov. 11). RFC's roly-poly George Allen said flatly: no. Most of the companies were putting up negligible security, might make as much as 14,000% profit if the loans went through...
Ingredient No. 2. The pot was really brought to a sizzling boil by Preston Tucker, a small-time promoter with big ideas of making autos in the Chicago plant. He had agreed in September to lease it from the War Assets Administration. But NHA had ordered the plant to go to Lustron. In a frantic effort to block this, Tucker came up with a dark tale. His story: a lawyer approached him, just before the National Housing Administration ordered the plant turned over to Lustron, and promised to block the deal if Tucker 1) gave him $400,000 in stock...