Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of dozen writers and painters-including Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
...master) by the time he was five. In his teens Hu became disillusioned, turned to gloomy poetry and carousing, awoke one morning in jail for assaulting a cop while soused. Looking at his scratched face in a mirror, Hu recalled a proverb ("Heaven intended this material surely for some use"), vowed to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to the U.S. He did, and went to Cornell...
...that the Star-Times take the beam out of its own eye by cleaning up its comic strips. It couldn't very well do that, said the Star-Times lamely; if it dropped comic strips, they-and their readers-would be snapped up by competitors. It was no use complaining to the syndicates; their attitude was that most of their customers were satisfied, so take it or leave...
...more expensive than typesetting (one estimate was about 30% more) but the cost was dropping fast. Though it might take five years to make it as cheap and efficient as linotype, some editors thought it had already caused "a revolution." Said one: "One sure change will be the use of larger type. Let this machine be developed a little more, and the cost of starting a newspaper will be very little. Instead of $50,000 or $100,000 for linotype machines to start a smalltown paper, I'll bet you could start one for $10,000 with Vari-Type...
...there was small hope of any quick boost in production, the obvious thing to do was curb the amount of spending money. Ttie way to do this, said Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner F. Eccles, was to use a few old methods (keep taxes high, restrict housing and installment credit) and one new one. He wanted Congress to give FRB the power to boost maximum reserve requirements of commercial banks (the amount of deposits not available for loans) from the present 26% to 51%. This was the "mildest way," Eccles insisted, of curbing credit...