Word: productions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom is written with infectious moral fervor; few recent books on "world affairs" have made more sense on the essentials of the present crisis. It points out that the greatest menace confronting the West today is not an outside force from "another world." Communism is part and product of Western civilization, a symptom-like a fever sore-of its crisis. Western civilization produced the Communists, and gave them their strongest weapons. The Communists do not win their victories simply by launching "offensives" against the West; they win whenever and wherever a vacuum is created by the failure of Western power...
Boutet de Monvel, the proud and gentle product of an age that now seems almost as remote as Charlemagne's, died in 1913, just before history presented some of his readers with the day he had in mind. "He took a long time dressing," one of his sons remembers, "and was always elegant, with a bow tie, spats, silk hat, a flower in his lapel, and always a cane...
Requirements for salesmanship are (1) a thorough knowledge of one's product, (2) a liberal arts education and (3) a good wife, Brown declared...
People with high blood pressure, or some diseases of the heart and kidneys, are often forbidden to use salt. Last spring the Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo thought it had found something harmless that would give food a salty flavor. The new product, Westsal, contained lithium chloride (table salt is sodium chloride...
...help tell this somber story, Paramount has used the services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...