Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holding the first of what it calls Twilight Previews (6 to 8 p.m.), Manhattan's streamlined Museum of Modern Art last week devoted two-thirds of its largest gallery space to Painter Pavel Tchelitchew. The 214 exhibits, hung against a color scheme (each wall a different shade) devised by the artist, formed the biggest retrospective Tchelitchew show ever assembled. The remaining rooms displayed 43 carvings, 25 drawings by American Sculptor John B. Flannagan, who died by suicide last January...
...everyone had expected (TIME, Oct. 5) the new "Controlled Materials Plan" was in essence a scheme for vertical allocations-in contrast to the horizontal every-producer-for-himself setup that finally strangled its predecessor, the unlamented Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") in its own red tape. From top to bottom, the Controlled Materials Plan provides...
When Price Boss Leon Henderson consulted with Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, his argument for this scheme was that since the ceiling would be maintained, the move would not be inflationary. Actually, of course, if the Government pays bigger subsidies to corporations (be they copper companies or milk companies), and the corporations pay higher wages which are used to buy consumer goods, the net result is very definitely inflationary. The truth, which the Government has acknowledged but refused to face, is that copper is so badly needed that it is cheap at the price of a little inflation...
Author Heym approves Dr. Wallerstein's findings: that all men are not heroes in the face of death. When Commissioner Reinhardt's scheme finally won out and the hostages were shot, only burly, talkative, astute Hostage Janoshik left a noble record-which bore fruit in the blowing up of three ammunition barges on the morning of the execution...
...Concerned only with millions," the re-negotiation policy attempts to recover excess profits for the government by a reconsideration of all the contracts of a company. According to Saunders, this scheme avoids the pitfalls both of requiring individual consideration of each contract and enforcing conformation to a general rule...