Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slichter thought that, paradoxically, production would keep going down through July. That would make people feel more pessimistic than ever. Said Slichter: "The revival will start . . . while gloom is still thick and while the price level is still falling . . . Each month that consumption exceeds production strengthens the foundation for recovery...
Manhattan's swelling Puerto Rican community has provided a lush bonanza tor nonscheduled U.S. airlines. For two years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make an engaging dance team (TIME, April...
...Lubianka. When Anders still refused to join the Red Army and to confess to crimes he had never committed, he was taken to Moscow's Lubianka prison. Here he was again submitted to the NKVD treatment-sometimes being wooed with cigarettes and tea, at other times being smashed in the face and kicked...
Soon Lanny is helping Harry Hopkins draft the Yalta declaration, warning F.D.R. about the Russians and giving him a few pointers on Marxist theory. More & more, of course, he finds himself worrying about the President's health. After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...