Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show has nothing whatever to do with the war or with international good neighborliness. Behind the cosmic billing is a carefully selected, beautifully presented variety showing of old (2200 B.C.) and new (1943) paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics-37 timeless works of art from 37 nations. It took a solid year of planning, promoting, wangling* to round up this multimillion dollars' worth of fine art, mostly from U.S. collections. Some of the best items...
...thirds of the nation's 150,000,000 new records annually. The ban had begun in August 1942, when Petrillo demanded that the record companies pay his union treasury a small tribute on every record made. Since then, Little Caesar had won every battle. He had split the solid record-company front by signing up Decca (and 100-odd small-fry companies) a year ago. Then he defied the War Labor Board, boldly ignored an appeal by President Roosevelt. Suddenly, Violinist Jascha Heifetz switched from RCA to Decca. Victor and Columbia could see droves of other topnotch artists leaving...
...interest of both Britain and the U.S. that Britain should be a prosperous, well-populated industrial nation serving extensive export markets. British and American national self-interests are thus identical and complementary. Here is the really solid and unsentimental basis for continued cooperation between the two countries after...
Cornhusker State. "This shouldn't happen to a donkey," groaned Nebraska's Democratic leaders over the campaign (no rootin', no tootin') waged by homespun George W. Olsen, their elderly, circle-squaring busboy candidate (TIME, Sept. 25). It didn't. Winner: G.O.P.'s solid Governor Dwight Griswold...
Herr X was a lawyer, fortyish, balding, apparently pleased by his new masters, a little uneasy about the old. The record showed that he was neither Nazi nor Communist, just a solid, sober citizen who minded his own affairs. His conduct under Hitler seemed to have been as anti-Nazi as was consistent with safety...