Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holland seems actually better off than France and Italy in spite of having meat rationing and insisting that tourists keep track of the money they spend. A sure sign of this is that man in Holland is offended if you refuse the cigarette he offers while the Frenchman or Italian does not expect you to take...
...feckless planning and design. New York City is not alone. Throughout the U.S., school boards are putting up the wrong kind of schools. They spend thousands of extra dollars on belfries, balconies, Grecian columns, fake chimneys, and dummy dormers. They balk at the idea of the unpretentious one-story schoolhouse to which rooms can be added as needed...
...believe it is not too soon to think seriously about such matters - that the age of space flight is not far away. A speaker at one meeting asked a ringing question: "Looking out across immensity to the great suns and circling planets . . . can you believe that man is to spend all his days cooped and crawling on the surface of-this tiny -this moist pebble with its clinging film of air?" The members answered unanimously with resounding noes"noes...
...long time, Lever Bros.' Missouri-born President Charles Luckman has been itching to move his headquarters out of tree-shaded Cambridge, Mass. He wanted to take his staff down to New York, to the market place, where it would be close to the advertising agencies that spend some $12 million of Lever money every year. He also wanted to build a new $6,000,000 Lever House and gather the top management of Lever and its three U.S. subsidiaries under one roof...
...Films has not made a movie which is entertaining along strict movie-review ideas of what makes for entertainment. It will not please Eight to Eighty, All the Kiddies, or even necessarily allow you to spend a Pleasant Hour at the U.T. You may find the photography extraordinarily sensitive; it might just as well give you a headache. The story can strike you as social commentary, or a cutting-room sweeping of unarticulated scenes. But "A Touch of the Times" will also let you know that there are people seriously pointing ahead towards movie-making as an art. It will...