Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Sunday's jam session at Symphony Hall was a distinct success. The music was above average for the most part, way above the previous session at the Bradford. The acoustics were superb, except for a slight echo which one soon got accustomed...
Said General Douglas MacArthur, who earlier had warned that Japs were massing north of Australia: "Our decisive success cannot fail to have a most important effect on the enemy's tactical plans. His campaign, at least for the time being, is completely dislocated. . . . Merciful Providence has guarded us in this great victory." General MacArthur's communiques neglected to mention General Kenney...
Indian leaders were aware that even if the great mass of Indians were ready for a general uprising-and there is no evidence that they are-it would have little chance of success while India was packed with troops (mostly Indian). It was also clear that Gandhi's fast, hitherto an infallible weapon in reaching moral victory or political compromise, had achieved neither. The one channel left to them was political action, and the chances of effective action were low indeed last week...
Second big Johnston point: U.S. business stands 100% behind the Administration's Good Neighbor policy. But this cannot be achieved through grandiose Government-sponsored plans to control trade. The Good Neighbor policy's success depends on private business initiative. Said Johnston in Buenos Aires: "We came down primarily to lay a foundation for postwar development through private enterprise. We do not want any South American...
Printers' Ink has thus described the Book-of-the-Month Club: "An interesting advertising success story. . . . The selection committee, or Editorial Board, . . . in a way is a consumer jury that passes on the quality of [the] merchandise. . . . Circulation has to be constantly maintained. . . . This situation calls for a continual stream of advertising, which has now reached the cumulative total of $8,500,000. . . . Advertising is thus solely responsible for building and maintaining this business in a field in which it was deemed impossible to carry on a mailorder operation...