Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from the sky...
...undertaking. Unlike the French, who from the start have spent a large portion of their Occupation budget on the transmission of French culture through intellectuals, the U.S. has been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting the one undamaged art museum in Munich into an officers club, have not convinced Germans of American intellectual interests. In short, the undertaking has lacked sophistication, and in a society which gives enormous respect to intellectuals their scorn carries...
...part is that "The Sheltering Sky" will be a best seller...
...hero of The Old Man occupied one corner of a composition that was too loose and bare to be properly described as a composition at all. There was nothing sunny about the level light that pointed up a shuttered window above the old man's head, and the sky beyond had in it more paint than air. Yet the somber, dilapidated house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition...
...other plane is Boeing's C-97-B, a sky-truck version of its Stratocruiser, now in quantity production in Seattle. The C-97-B will carry more cargo (53,000 Ibs.) higher (30,000 ft), faster (300 m.p.h.) and farther (3,750 mi.) than Tunner asked for, but its largest cargo door is a hair too small for the Army truck. Last week, Boeing engineers were busy designing a new door...