Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least one capitalist has spoken plain words to his colleagues about the revolutionary aims of the world. He is Charles Edward Wilson, new President of General Electric Co., who said last month: "The world, our nation included, is passing through what history may later record as the second stage of a revolutionary movement of the masses-a movement born during World War I and likely to last, with intermittent armistices of one kind or another, for two or three decades more. . . . Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and the Japanese Army leaders are but symbols of this movement. . . . As a world movement...
...many weeks, a battle has been fought which in number of fighting units involved, in number of men engaged, in the number of its days, in its promise of consequences, may be the greatest battle of them all. Last week this mighty battle was obviously reaching a decisive stage...
...area, northwest of Birmingham, the Reynolds Metals Co. is building a $23,500,000 aluminum plant and a $17,500,000 rolling mill. Planned for the Republic Steel Corp. plant at Gadsden is a $6,000,000 addition to forge 105-mm. anti-aircraft shells. Also in the blueprint stage are a $12,800,000 underground ammunition storage area at Anniston, a $47,997,000 powder plant and $15,000.000 powder-bag loading plant at tiny Childersburg (population...
...good deal more mature than this allegorical scheme, but it, too, is lacklustre. On the credit side is Designer Raoul Pene du Bois's most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything that occurs on the stage. Red-haired Nancy Coleman is a lovely Liberty, especially in the cool blue satin nightgown of her sickroom period. John Beal manages quite a trick in playing Tom Smith without too strong a suggestion of Eagle Scoutism. Neither manages to breathe life into Mr. Barry's symbolism...
...golden-voiced Jack McMichael, the American Youth Congress last weekend rolled like a giant machine over all opposition, Harvard protest groups included, to stage a highly vocal demonstration against the Lease-Lend Bill, Jim Crew practices, war-mongers, and labor haters...