Word: turne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirrel & Cage. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had opened for the government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
...loss of dollars would be large. As the all-day, all-night session went on, tempers fired up and threats emerged. McCloy threatened to use the U.S.'s veto on economic matters, which he is given by the High Commission Charter. François-Poncet threatened in turn to take the dispute back to his government...
Prescription. Bernays offered no cureall, but he mapped what is probably the most ambitious and detailed strategy yet designed to lift the theater's prestige and boost its business. If ever made to work on Broadway-a stronghold of unenlightened self-interest-his plan would turn a collection of hit-hungry gamblers into an efficiently self-regulated industry with uniform standards...
Assistant Professor Margaret Clapp had deep brown eyes and dark wavy hair. In her bright red dress, she seemed too slim and pretty to be a historian of note. As she lectured, she spoke softly, seldom moved her hands except to turn the note cards in front of her. As is the custom at Brooklyn, the students constantly interrupted her with questions. Sometimes Professor Clapp answered quickly, sometimes led a lively discussion. Often she broke into a broad, dimpled smile...
...Hollywood's wildcatters had been so lucky. Directors John Huston and Mervyn Le Roy, and Actor Dennis O'Keefe and several oilmen recently sank $194,000 into a 10,500-ft. dry well near Inglewood, Calif. Even those who had made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what...