Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too one-sided. The London Evening Standard's Columnist Hylton Cleaver seriously suggested last week that all foreigners, including horses, be barred from British sport for two years so that the home product might recover its lost confidence. The Observer's Editor Ivor Brown was more philosophical about it: "We can play second fiddle happily enough so long as we do indeed play...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...
...machinery suffering from perpetual hypochondria. It seems to need some new "indispensable" gadget every other week. To Dailey, however, it is the instrument with which he makes a living and nothing is too good for it. As a result, its own maker would have a hard time recognizing his product...
...Hindu, Mohandas Gandhi, still hoped to bring Hindus and Moslems together in a united India. If, in spite of divisive forces, India's 400 million really form themselves into a nation in the modern sense, Gandhi will have brought off (almost as a by-product of his larger purpose) a revolution greater than...
National Spirit. In Bangkok, Siam, the director general of the government distillery indignantly scoffed at reports that his product had poisoned several tipplers, explained : "We never allow whiskey to leave our distillery until it has aged at least 28 hours...