Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to highlight the austere handling Eastern gives its passengers, President Baker feels that it is also symbolic of the comeback of his airline. With his labor troubles settled, he has pulled his operating costs per revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but according to CAB, they're still above Eastern. Although National wound up fiscal 1949 last June with a piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation of continued profits he is buying...
National is still a long way from a happy landing. But Baker hopes that by the time CAB gets around to final hearings on dissolving National, probably not until next year, National's comeback will have made the question academic...
...like Rank (Henry V, Hamlet), the sureseaters have been a bonanza. Eagle Lion, distributor of Rank's The Red Shoes, has grossed more from its 40-week run in Philadelphia's Trans-Lux than from all its other pictures in Philadelphia theaters during the same period. Better still, less receipts have to be splurged on costly ballyhoo; a sureseater hit automatically woos the kind of audience that is eager to seek out a good film...
...still not master of the novel and his characters have a foursquare, surface rightness rather than depth. He can also use some unashamed, sugary, overripe prose: "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose." But most readers will be thankful for a fictional fidelity to time & place that is wholly exceptional among Guthrie's competitors...
...succeeded in wooing the Senate to his side, but ran into unexpected opposition from the House, which stubbornly held out for a fixed-parity support. Aiken's plan would allow a flexible parity range from 60 to 90 percent of the base period, depending on current agricultural conditions but still securing a parity principle in the long run. Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan introduced a complex farm program so confusing that the Republicans saw their chance to push a plan of their...