Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what his "program for dealing with inflation" would be. One measure being discussed is allocation of critical materials; e.g., halting the use of steel for beer cans. Over that measure hangs the threat of a black market. Another idea is to give the Government the authority to step into the nation's farms and set aside grain for overseas shipment. That expedient will not control grain prices unless the Government also fixes the price at which the producers must sell...
...Make Our Cause So Just." From Socialist testimony and Communist ranting it was clear that the initiative lay with the U.S. How should the U.S. use its opportunity? Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr had the best answer. In a Manhattan speech he said...
Weeks pays $100 to $350 for stories and articles, three times as much as his predecessors did. Editor Weeks gets bargains because of the Atlantic's prestige. And by encouraging new writers, he has often been able to use their later fame-and articles -to add to this prestige. The only remaining competitor in the Atlantic's field is 97-year-old Harper's, and the Atlantic is now ahead of it in circulation. Weeks wishes there were more competitors. Old trees, he likes to say, are always healthier when they stand together...
...London Daily Express office during the war, Editor Arthur Christiansen used to notice a lackadaisical G.I. in a typical G.I. pose-leaning against the wall of the sub-editors' room and blankly chewing gum. One day Christiansen struck up a conversation with the leaner, found that he was soaking up the newspaper atmosphere for future use. His name: Sergeant Richard Vesey...
...sang, the part. Says he: "Generally speaking, you know, Tristan was not 50 years old, nor did Isolde weigh 250 pounds." The production, unhampered by clumsy stage machinery, had pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...