Word: reviewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through 1948 the senior editor, writers and researchers of TIME'S Business & Finance department have had in mind the year-end review of U.S. business which appears in this issue...
Actually, we did not attempt this exacting job of putting the year's events in the world of business in their proper perspective until TIME was 17 years old. From that first year-end review to this one, however, a significant transformation in the viewpoint of our readers toward the review and toward business has taken place. In the beginning very few of you wrote to us about either of these matters. Since the war, we have received more and more letters from you-written by men and women, laymen and experts alike-containing knowledgeable comment on the facts...
This year's review of Business in 1948 is the most extensive TIME has ever run. The work of committing it to paper, however, was considerably helped by the insistence of Joseph Purtell, Senior Editor for Business & Finance, that everyone concerned with it-from researchers to correspondents in the field-keep his facts at hand and the review in mind throughout the year. Pertinent oddities like Businessman Baxter's hymn to his country, to Texas and to Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions...
...actual writing of the review itself, because, like all TIME stories, it must be written as close...
...Paisan" was acted largely by non-professional Americans and Italians, giving it none of the forced histrionics of so many current films. Voted the outstanding film of the year by the National Board of Review, it is different from any American movie you will ever see, and so completely successful in purpose that it can ill afford to be missed...