Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of war-time censorship cast its inevitable shadow on the field of education last Saturday when Ralph W. Robey, Assistant Professor of Banking at Columbia, finished perusing six hundred text books and decided that they tended "to belittle our form of government and criticize the system of business enterprise." When he released his black list under the aegis of the powerful National Association of Manufacturers, people started taking him-seriously...
...British Government, said Mr. Willkie. has done four things to increase war production: 1) It has gone directly into the munitions business, building and staffing its own arsenals. 2) It has built "shadow plants"-new war plants in the shadow of existing private plants. The British Treasury supplies the money and the private company supplies the management for a small fee. 3) For new war-order plants that can be readily converted to peacetime use after the war, the Government finances the plant itself, the businessman furnishes the machinery and working capital. He earns about 5% on his investment...
Back Street (Universal), last done in 1932, is noted in the trade press as a "four-handkerchief" movie. Fannie Hurst's dreary, solemn story of a woman's lifelong devotion to her lover succeeds in proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lot of an unmarried wife is hard and lonely...
...bota nazi clerne su sombre sombre America" or The Nazi boot casts its shadow over America" says the "Defense League" to South Americans in a leaflet appeal now exhibited in the second of a series of propaganda displays in the upper hall of Widener Library...
...charted the Panama Canal, had placed an airfield but 150 miles away, could well use its heavy Junkers as troop transports, bombers. Last year Colombia responded gracefully (if belatedly) to U. S. pressure by nationalizing Scadta (now Avianca) and giving 64% control to Pan American.* But the Nazi shadow still fell on the canal...