Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese society remains one where ideas in everybody's mind still have a greater role, and organized government a smaller one, than in the West. This is a favorable condition for Communism, with its elaborate and ambitious theoretical doctrine, ready for sale to anyone shopping for new doctrine to replace...
Bornstein believes that the first businesses to be contracted will be the smaller stores and restaurants, while large department stores and hotels, which are expected to need more persuasion, will be left until last...
...constitutional system is adequate, probably, for the government of one of our smaller New England states. But when it produces such irresponsible candidates as we have ... it is apparently not adequate for our purposes. How can the Executive be made responsible to the Legislature at all times, and so given really effective control of the Legislature for the positive government of our country...
Shirt Loser. Although high-salaried radio talent (e.g., Jack Benny, Fred Allen) still drives the cost of some sound shows far above television costs, television is rapidly catching up-and TV audiences are far smaller. Furthermore, to keep their clients up to the minute on television, agencies have built up expensive television departments. So far, income from television accounts generally is far short of covering the cost of writers, new art directors and surveys. "When we get into television," one adman admitted, "we lose our shirts...
...Jake doggedly formed a new company which bought the old firm's assets for $400,000, and began building their present smaller but much less vulnerable empire. Completely self-sufficient, it includes a script company (which owns more than 1,000 shows), a music publishing company, a scenery-and-costume company, and the Trebuhs (Shubert spelled backwards) Realty Co., which, with the Shubert Theater Corp., owns 16 of the 32 legitimate theaters in New York, owns or controls 21 outside...