Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news of Big Steel's surrender reached the United Auto Workers convention in Milwaukee, a listless show stirred to life. Walter Reuther perked up perceptibly. The U.A.W.'s scrappy president is not a man who likes to let George do it-or even Philip Murray. A steel strike sooner or later might have shut down the auto industry; now the auto workers were just where they wanted to be, carrying the C.I.O. ball for a fourth-round increase in U.S. industry. It was a nice forward pass (completed): Murray to Truman to Reuther...
Just a Brother. Reuther was careful to avoid any show of steamroller tactics. Anyhow, the noisy left-wing opposition of past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...
Freshman on the Floor. In response to Taft's alarms, the Senate was treated to as remarkable a show by a freshman as it had seen in many a year. New York's John Foster Dulles, standing in the well of the chamber and pacing back & forth like a lawyer before a jury, delivered a point-by-point reply, then handled a two-hour grilling from his fellow Republicans with adroitness and composure...
...million for the previous year. In the last three months, traffic had picked up so much that many an airline (e.g., American, United, Capital and Western) which had losses in 1949's first quarter thought it had earned enough in the second quarter to wipe them out and show a profit besides. American, for example, might well show a net of close to $3,000,000 for the first six months, more than enough to offset its entire 1948 loss...
Thanks to efficient research, Summertime has a deceptively substantial appearance. Its. authentic period sets and costumes are persuasively gay, and the whole film is redolent of early German-American Gemütlichkeit. Its only other claim to style is Judy Garland. In several spots, she manages to give the show the look and pace of a bang-up musical...