Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over relations with MOP in which Alleghany Corp.'s spectacular Robert R. Young has a big interest. Bob Young now has his hands full trying to take over the New York Central, merge it with his Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, Feb. 3). But he has his eye on a vast transcontinental empire. If he can get MOP out of receivership-and take over control in the process-his next westward step might well be a deal with the Rio Grande. Last week Denver was abuzz with reports that Wilson McCarthy had already put out feelers toward a working agreement with...
...must be sure, of course, that nothing is allowed to interfere with the job at hand. The man chosen for the part must literally throw himself into the vast sea that was the soul of the Savieur de France. I remember well the case of Reginald Arbutney, who gave the Longneck Theater its greatest evening in the first male "Joan." Unfortunately, Reginald was never allowed to follow his star for he inadvertently tied a corset string to one spur and thereby broke his neck mounting his white charger in the last act. May the Harvard Joan have more care...
...fact that (in alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party) they control Italy's federation of trade unions, the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro. The Confederazione's Communist Secretary-General Giuseppe di Vittorio, a wiry, steel-jawed veteran of Spain's International Brigade, wields the vast strike power of the Confederazione's six million workers...
...through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
...must be filled with a greater cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel of privilege that higher education continues to be, this view must be enlarged to include concrete plans for the education of the vast numbers of potential businessmen and career specialists whose contributions to society are not diluted by the absence of numerous degrees...