Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even indirect controls, however, should be applied gradually. Since the building industry is one of the chief props under the economy, the builders warned against too drastic a construction cut. Said they: "We consider it quite possible that the restrictions already imposed (i.e., higher down payments, less mortgage insurance) may...
Last week, after a two-month vacation, Mr. I. was back on TV with a 30-minute version of Huckleberry Finn. Its young-in-heart viewers are promised such future attractions as The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Stevenson's Kidnapped and a production based on Hamlet in which a...
Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a...
In Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the...
"It Can't Happen Here." This hastily evacuated house still had the stage props of any typical American home. There were brrightly colored children's phonograph records, a woman's lacy hat, copies of Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post, and bottles of Coca-Cola...