Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM have been cooperating with the War Production Board on conservation of paper. During the year 1945, these four publications of the TIME group are budgeted to use 73,000,000 Ib. (1,450 freight carloads) less paper than in 1942. In view of resulting shortages of copies, please share your copy of TIME with your friends...
...very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said he, "the face of America turns westward. . . . The objective has been clearly established by President Truman: 'The primary task facing the nation today is to win the war in Japan -to win it as quickly as possible.' " Unczarlike Czar. The man who drew this picture of the U.S. in transition...
While she was held in $50,000 bail on a charge of manslaughter, a mourning family buried Seaman Kovacs. Charlie Milton disappeared from public view, and at week's end had not been heard from. Neither had George Stevens, who was still overseas, although Imogene had sent him a peremptory cable: "Come home at once." George's father was sure he would if he could: "George will stick with her. When a man's stuck he's stuck...
Britain's general election campaign was enlivened by shouts of view halloo last week as the Tory Party, in full cry, prepared to close in on Harold J. Laski, Chairman of the Labor Party. The occasion was a remark which Laski, professor of political science and author of 19 books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have...
...Allied Commission announced that Leonardo da Vinci's faded, dusty masterpiece, The Last Supper, had survived time, bungling repairs and bombs. The convent's roof had been destroyed in August 1943, but the wall painting, no longer protected by sandbags and steel scaffolding, was again on view. Only one retouching job would be necessary: a four-inch square in the tunic of St. James the Greater...