Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pigeons," snarled George as two birds lit ten feet in front of him. "Them damn pigeons will have this platform all messed up in no time." He spat, forcefully, on the new grass...
...Ten years after its original release Samuel Goldwyn's personal prize package looks pretty much the same: it is still elegant extravaganza bursting with top-flight specialty entertainment. The film has a superstructure of Gershwin music (last score before the composer's death); it has as well the minty savor of screen spectacles in the Thirties which sticky current jobs somehow cannot boast...
...Legion to the contrary, as it has never prevented war in Europe's conscription-ridden countries. Though it may give the illusion of bringing national security closer, UMT can do little but make the U. S. and the rest of the world trigger-happy. In the short-run, the ten million veterans preclude any necessity for what is in reality a peace-time draft...
...once followed the flag, now follows the films. And Rank is, in effect, Britain's chosen instrument to build an industry able to compete with Hollywood in the world market-and so get Britain some of the dollars she desperately needs. He has made an amazing start. In ten years he has changed the British movie industry, once compounded of "concupiscence, chicanery and confusion," into a powerful monopolistic instrument, and fashioned a new economic empire. As powerful as any film enterprise in the world, his empire comprises over 60% of Britain's theaters and 50% of its moviemaking...
This week auto production is expected to drop to around 50,000, from the 70,000-plus average this spring. With luck, the painful climb to volume production could start again in ten days. But automakers, who had pushed production in the first three months of 1947 to a postwar high of 1,144,526 units, doubted that they would do as well in the second quarter...