Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fondest projects over the side. Lucas saw little hope for the Fair Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn't possibly be enacted by any Congress in seven months," he added (though Harry Truman, a year ago, had said that the "terrible" 80th Congress could pass a comparable program in 15 days, if it really wanted...
Damage Control. Despite Harry Truman's hasty efforts at damage control, the Fair Deal had all but lost steerageway, and Truman knew it. The truth was that though he had a partisan majority...
...Suite. A year ago in Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
...Kissing Her Now? Gradually, Shanghai's shopkeepers began to open their stores. The Communists, eager to get business started again, asked the American-owned Shanghai Power Co. to keep the doors of its collection office open even though one corner of the building was still in the line of fire of a few Nationalist snipers still fighting from the buildings along the Bund and Soochow Creek. On the third day of Communist rule, 300 truckloads of political workers and takeover officials chugged into Shanghai. One group, responsible for industry, trade, finance, postal services and telecommunications, set up offices...
...behemoths were not fighting over peanuts. Last week, the first week of big city sales, some 4,000 cameras were sold in the Manhattan area alone. Though Polaroid was making 10,000 cameras a month, it was forced to ration them, as well as its special film, to retail outlets. For the first time since the war, Polaroid expected to make a profit this year...