Word: turne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace terms. The company, which for 26 years had provided employees with free pensions (now $50 a month at 65), would increase them to $100 a month and bear all the cost (an estimated 9? an hour, in contrast to the fact-finders' proposed 6?. Murray agreed in turn to have Bethlehem's 80,000 workers pay half the cost of a new 5?-an-hour insurance and hospitalization program...
...tall order; but anything less might well turn the Marshall Plan's success into fatal failure...
Novelist-Playwright Anita Loos was making the most of a good thing. Having cleaned up over $1,500,000 on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a magazine sketch (1924), a first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into a musicomedy. As rehearsals began in Manhattan, a photographer recorded an unrehearsed resemblance between Author Loos and the 1949 version of her heroine, up & coming Comedienne Carol (Lend an Ear) Channing...
Most of the University's investments, normal or unusual, turn out well. Once in a while something goes wrong. Harvard today has 3276 shares in the National Fireproofing Corporation. They might as well be burned up, for their total value is listed at a nominal one dollar...
Miss St. Denis' art seems to me a secondary one. She is probably without equal in this country in her hand-and-arm technique--it seems like a form of withcraft the way she can make her arms turn into writhing cobras, or her hands become slowly-opening lotus blossoms--and it is no less fascinating to see her make a piece of fabric tell a story. But all of these things seem to belong to the decorative arts, not to the creative. However, every dancer, indeed every interpretative artist, could still learn much from her, as many...