Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian World. "A start must be made," said Adenauer when he presided last year over West Germany's constitutional assembly, "so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world." As Chancellor, at 73, he will guide a nation neither whole nor as yet quite free-still distrusted by the outside world, beset with grave economic problems, vestiges of hatred and despair...
...starved cities of Brazil's "forgotten corner." In charge of the job was a corps of young (average age: 30) Brazilian engineers of the Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco. In the ten months since work began, CHESF has put up a city for 4,500, made a start on a 2-2-mile dam, and is getting ready to carve a huge subterranean power station in solid granite...
...finished the complicated job of making cortisone from yams, but researchers could start trying at once. No costly task force (like the one sent to Africa to gather Strophanthus seeds) is needed to get the yams. Sometimes weighing 30 pounds, they grow in many parts of Mexico and Central America...
...dispense this capsule advice, Producer Irving Mansfield (Talent Scouts') engaged Critic Clifton Fadiman as moderator, and Comic Abe Burrows and Playwright-Director George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...
Suspicions & Possibilities. In their turn, the steel companies bitterly denounced the whole idea of a fact-finding board as an abrogation of collective bargaining. They suspected, with reason, that the Steelworkers had played for a fact-finding board from the start, hoping that their friend Harry Truman would appoint friends of labor to such a board...