Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s, ill-prepared for the occupation at any stage, were totally unprepared for this. Newcomers, replacing the combat veterans, lacked even the stimulus of a dimming anger. Most of the officers who were supposed to help them understand often needed more help than the G.I.s...
...three. A motor behind the passenger compartment spins a pusher propeller that sticks out where the rudder would normally be. The front wheels are steerable, as in an automobile. The plane's sponsors, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., admit that the loose-jointed wing is still in the experimental stage. But they hope that the perfected version will make light airplanes as easy to manage as motorboats or automobiles. Its designer, George Spratt, flies it with ease, but says he cannot fly a conventional, fixed-wing plane...
...months Manhattan theatergoers were titillated by the stage play. The film's plot is the same: British Novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) lives stylishly in the English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited...
...resumption of Jap industrial production is still 98% in the talk stage. The question of production is also tied in with the bigger one: what shall be done with the great industrialists, the zaibatsu? Certainly, the trust situation is worse here than even in Germany. Everybody tells tales about the zaibatsu's imperialism, their bludgeoning of competitors, their profiteering. But there is no documentation, probably because, as a French journalist, just released from internment, said: "Really important things were known only to a handful of men, those who did them, and they won't tell...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in summing up the discussion, reaffirmed Professor Bridgman's position, declaring that "the raw materials needed for the atomic bomb's manufacture are so widely distributed that control at the production stage rather than in the laboratory is absolutely necessary. It is either one world or no world at all," he concluded...