Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth (Spaatz) stage of the B-29 operations had begun. In all stages, including the newest, Curtis LeMay was inextricably wrapped. More than any other combat airman, he had become the V.L.R. (Very Long Range) man of the war against Japan...
Nationalization. To organize efficient production to meet her trade and international needs the Labor Party proposed to nationalize the mines (the first stage of coal nationalization was predicted before winter) and the electric-power industry. This was an enormous task. On its success probably depended nationalization of railroads and the Bank of England...
...signed the singing war veteran to a contract, and had high hopes of landing him a fat part in a musical comedy. For husky Sidney Lawson, 23, it was quite a step. Only a month ago he was a member of the Society of Timid Souls, a fraternity of stage-frightened musicians and actors...
Before he went to war, Lawson was a tenor with Robert Shaw's Collegiate Chorale, and afterwards he appeared in some soldier shows. But a year of infantry fighting overseas and six months of paralysis from bullet wounds shattered his stage poise. His voice was as lusty as ever, but audiences gave him the heebie-jeebies and a spotlight froze him stiff...
Overhead is cut to the bone by renting stage space, keeping only a skeleton staff of eleven people between pictures, paying actors by the hour. But they are paid well and they do the scenes right the first time. Gagged Pine: "We pay the highest salaries in Hollywood-for 20 minutes." Result: Overhead, which amounts to 40% of a film's total cost at M.G.M., is kept at 4% by Pine & Thomas...