Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing problem has been creeping up on the country ever since 1929, Epstein stated. Although some housing legislation passed as early as 1935, it was shaped mainly to provide employment. "It was not until 1942 that legislation for housing's sake alone was passed." Epstein added that "the problem has attained such epidemic proportions that we are not completely certain housing needs can ever be filled...
...Asiatic League," nor the U. S. as regards the Indonesia question. Though I believe that justice must be accorded the natives, Dutch interests should remain paramount. Because of Indonesia's importance to Netherland economy, an economy near bankruptcy because of the war, it behooves the U. S., for the sake of the E.R.P., to have Dutch interests remain predominant. The means "laissez-faire." The use of the U.N. as suggested by Senator Brewster to coerce the Netherlands into an impossible settlement with the Republican "de facto" government seems to this reader analogous to the U.N.'s condonation...
...sake of variety, European-trained Jesus Molina decided on a supine position. With a contractor's thoroughness, Molina consulted with scores of doctors on bone structure and rigor mortis, attended all the town's autopsies. The result, a massive, 6 ft. 2 in. figure of stone, was stark and realistic...
Rank & file U.S. movie exhibitors may not care much about cinematic art for its own sake, but they know what they want from Hollywood. Last week the exhibitors drew some conclusions from their box-office receipts. After polling its exhibitor-members across the nation, the Allied States Association announced: Hollywood's pictures (and advertising) have been truckling to the tastes of "sophisticated Broadway audiences" and "professional reviewers," and run a serious risk of becoming "class entertainment...
...Musicals are "quite often ... a gamble," and new formulas must be cooked up. "For God's sake," said one exhibitor, "quit making backstage musicals...