Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DESPITE NINE YEARS INVASION, OCCUPATION AND BITTER PRIVATION, COURAGE AND DETERMINATION OF GREEK PEOPLE ADMIRABLE. HOWEVER WE MUST ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE PRESENT STRUGGLE JUST AS WE HAVE SHOWN WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT BY GIVING...
...Fourth Estate. In a way, Killian will be an odd sort of president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support himself as a student, he went to work for the Technology Review, stayed until 1939 when President Karl T. Compton made him his executive assistant. A kindly and laconic man who likes hiking and the novels of George
...turned out that Actor Hersholt was not just orating. Last week he announced that the major studios, prodded by their New York headquarters, were withdrawing their financial support from the Oscar derby, one of Hollywood's best publicity-getters since 1928. Said Hersholt: "They say it wouldn't take so long to make a movie if the actors, directors, writers and technicians weren't so concerned with making it artistic and winning awards." Even this year's Oscars, Hersholt conceded, were not supported by three companies-Columbia, Republic and Universal-International (which released the top prizewinner...
Withdrawal of support did not mean that the studios would stop lobbying for their own pictures. And, as Hersholt quickly pointed out, an Oscar was not just an artistic laurel but a box-office lure as well. At week's end, apparently reconciled to the latest twist of the tightened Hollywood economy, the academy's board of governors decided that the money would have to be scraped up somewhere else, but the Oscars would carry...
...said Joe O'Connell, the Post Office paid the airlines $94 million in mail pay; in 1949 the bill might run to $125 million. This, he conceded, "is not small change by any means. On the other hand, it is considerably less than what we are spending to support the price of potatoes." In view of the airlines' importance to the economy and to national defense, he thought a good air transport system would be cheap at many times the price. But he favored the Hoover Commission's proposal that subsidies be plainly labeled, instead of being...