Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bilateral trade policies were due to "doctrinaire socialism," the Economist wrote: "British commercial policies, with a few exceptions, are imposed by the facts of the case . . . When the United States Government comes up against comparable problems, as in Germany and Austria, it reacts in much the same way...
Concludes the Economist: "Britain's present difficulties are not due to anything that can properly be called socialism . . . The change in the relationship between the old industrial nations of Europe and the new industrial giant in the New World has been on the way for the last 30 years . . . Now, in 1949, the underlying maladjustment between Europe and America is emerging like a reef hidden for a time under a spring tide...
...year-old, Miss Tilly was an alltime high money winner, but this year, in nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...
Over the Top. The trouble is: sex appeal has a way of being repealed by the passing years. Joan Crawford, for instance, who is reportedly 41, has a gem-hard glamour that has worn pretty well for 20 years; now her line is a sophisticated fortyishness, and the public is not clamoring to buy.* Nor is the well-preserved charm of Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Marlene Dietrich causing the box-office stampedes that it could set off ten, or even five years...
...Gardner, 26-year-old ex-student of stenography who married & divorced Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw on the way up, has a B-and-B quality that makes M-G-M hope she will become a screaming siren by the time Lana Turner begins to run down...