Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not be an easy job. Secretary Krug took "national resources" to mean manpower, technology and factories, as well as land, forests and minerals. Rich and bountiful as it is, the U.S. cornucopia is not limitless. Though annual exports on the projected scale of the Marshall Plan would amount to only 2% of the national capacity, they would be piled onto a taut, high-employment economy that was already near busting at the seams...
Instruments of Destruction. Czar Petrillo's aim as a union leader was understandable: he wants to keep his union big and his income fat.* Actually, Petrillo's union is big and rich only because he has been able to keep it heavily featherbedded. Of the 216,000 members, only about 35,000 are full-time professionals; about twice as many are part-timers who, says Petrillo, "are not quite making a living at it." But more than half are onetime musicians who, like Petrillo, have put aside their instruments and make their living in other occupations...
...Threatened. Another witness had talked to rich Hindus who last week had begun fleeing into Calcutta from Eastern Pakistan. These Hindus, he said, reported increased activity of the Moslem League National Guard organizations. If terrorism breaks out in northeast India, where 13,000,000 Hindus live, the carnage might be unimaginably greater than in the Punjab...
Yard: Hull, le; Nozak, it; Ingram; lg; Richards, c; Ripley, rg; Domini rb; Camick, re; Woodruff, qb; Skinner, rhb; Thayer, fb; Feder, lhb. Dunster: Parket, le; Rich, rt; Berkeley, rg; Weeks, e; Papleacos, lg: Knight, it; Graham, le; Easton, qb; Aldrich, lhb; Skinner, rhb; Manning...
Compared to the neat way American record companies have produced Mozart symphonies and Beethoven quartets in a series of performances by the recognized authorities in those fields, the treatment of Romantic piano music has been little short of chaotic. In this extraordinarily rich and varied field, there has been no planning, no skillful choice of works to be recorded, and little utilization of the pianists...