Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American point of view was not presented at the rally by a State Department official, but by such left-wing spokesmen as Michael J. Quill, president of Manhattan's powerful Transport Workers Union, and Norman Corwin, radio writer. Also present to provide the glamor expected on such an occasion were Sono Osato, Luba Malina, Margo and the Broadway stars. (Frank "Harvey" Fay, a Roman Catholic, later went roaring to Actors' Equity against participation of stage folk in "a Red meeting" where the Roman Catholic Church was denounced...
...drunkard is not "a moral and social outcast" - though many church people have taken that unchristian view, says the Rev. Alson J. Smith of St. Paul's Method ist Church, Brooklyn. An alcoholic is "someone who could be helped and [is] worth helping...
There were several more. Of them all, only Edda was now in the public view. Her interviewers brusquely asked: What had she to complain of? Did not her comfortable detention place her in a special position? Edda flared with her old fire: "I have always been in a special position," she snapped. "In the end, it will be in a very special position that I will be shot...
...Mobilization and Reconversion Director John W. Snyder took the opposite view, arguing that the only way to fight inflation is by production. Reconversion and re-employment would be greatly expedited by encouraging construction to the limit, since the building industry normally accounts for about 5% of the total U.S. employment. And high production would in turn create so much competition that any contractor who let prices get out of hand would just be cutting his own throat...
Domes & Nooks. Coaches, diners and "tavern cars" will be equipped with the General Motors designed "Vista Dome" (TIME, June 18)-a glass-enclosed elevated dome that protrudes 18 inches above the car roof. Under the unbreakable, heat-resisting Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers will have an unobstructed view of the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft lounge seats. For Dome dining under the stars dumbwaiters will lift meals from the kitchen below. After dinner, tables on the lower floor of the diners can be dropped into slots, the space cleared for dancing...