Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed to miners that "there should be, as an emergency measure, for a limited period, an extra half-hour's work per day." To place and keep workers (including "spivs and other drones") in essential industries, "it will be necessary to resume to a limited extent the use of powers of direction." To reduce Britain's projected 1948 overseas military establishment of 1,087,000 men, Attlee proposed a cut of only 80,000 in the armed forces. Food purchases in dollars, he said, must be cut 40%, but he still spoke hopefully of avoiding cuts in rations...
Since radio does not work well under water, the bathyscaphe will use a shortwave sound device lent by the British Admiralty, which developed it for communication between submarines...
...justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most of his staff left last week. Hillman planned to use up their "bank" of articles in three bimonthly issues. Then, barring happy accident, Pageant would give up the ghost...
When the victim's words have been reeled in on the tape, Funt gently breaks the news to him, plays back the sequence, and tries to get permission to use it on the air. He nearly always succeeds; so far, only three people (all of them in an Eighth Avenue pawnshop) have refused. Once in a while the victim is resentful. By last week, Funt had narrowly avoided a couple of fights but was still unbruised...
...threat to Rank as a producer. If U.S. producers, who also control almost 80% of the first-run outlets, decided to retaliate, they could knock Rank out of the U.S. market. U.S. movie men's hopes centered on Rank, who could be expected, they thought, to use his influence with the British Government to bring U.S. movies back to Britain...