Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general theme. We haven't seen that there is essentially as much difference between one film and another as there is between a symphony and a jam session. That example might stand us in good stead, incidentally; "Downbeat" doesn't try to judge Toscanini, nor does Olin Downes rip into Benny Goodman's work. Why ignore this demarcation when it comes to movies...
Also afoot are plans to take busses off scenic runs, give them to cities which have no streetcars, rip out seats to make crowded room for standees...
...Nelson's deputy, Kanzler has the power* to rip machine tools out of G.M., hand them to Ford; he can take brains and manpower from Packard, give them to Nash. Whether such pooling would be attempted was undecided this week. Detroit dopesters expected Kanzler to ring himself with specialists: Chrysler's fast-moving Eddie Hunt for tank production, Ford's burly Charles Sorensen for bombers, G.M.'s Ormond Hunt (no kin to Eddie) for ordnance work...
First came Missouri's grey little Harry Truman, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the war program. Senator Truman told Mr. Roosevelt that he was going to rip the whole defense organization up the middle. His report would disclose that the production effort was an awesome mess...
...Yorker cartoon (by Robert Day-see cut) showed a songwriter dreaming up: Stop the Wop, Rip into Nippon, The Hun is done...