Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world to use after the war. But most important to him, he sees a chance to break the back of the regional one-crop system which has been the curse of U.S. agriculture for three generations. Gradual steps towards diversification have been taken for years with only slight success. It took the tragedy of world war, of starving people, of men earning big wages producing machines of death to provide the long-sought agricultural opportunity, and Claude Wickard does not mean to let it slip...
Ringside Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a slight opus about a prize fighter (Robert Sterling) who wants to get into a business that smells good (groceries) and a manager (George Murphy) who makes him fight until he goes blind. It would not be much of a picture without Maisie (Ann Sothern), the Brooklyn Bonfire with a heart as big as a whale. Maisie makes...
...TIME intended no slight to famed Tail-Gate Artist Brunies, herewith gladly prints his likeness...
...sister is slight, 35-year-old, soft-spoken Oveta Gulp Hobby. She is used to getting things done. Executive vice president and assistant editor of the Houston Post, she was a director of the Cleburne National Bank...
Production Steady: TIME'S index dipped to 153.0 (estimated) in the July 19 week. Final figure for the preceding week is 153.2. Main reason for the slight drop was that some industries-notably steel -were catching breath after setting a record-breaking pace. But the clamor of steel's customers, most of whose orders now have priority ratings, was so great that last week some mills prepared to open their order books...