Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frontiers. For all the work that had been done, there still remained vast, unexplored regions of ugliness and inefficiency for the U.S. industrial designer to tackle. Designer Loewy last week summed up a few of the challenges...
...Last week Wayne Taylor handed out a few bruises on his own account, in a 227-page report of a joint EGA-Department of Commerce mission. After spending ten weeks in Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion...
Since the Teapot Dome scandal 25 years ago, the oil empire of Edward L. Doheny has been in & out of the headlines. Last week the holdings of Doheny, who was acquitted of bribe charges, made news again, perhaps for the last time. The Los Nietos (literally, the relatives) Co., owned by Doheny's five grandchildren,* sold the empire's last oil-producing property. The holdings have oil reserves in the U.S. and Canada of at least 48 million barrels. The buyer: Union Oil Co. of California. The price: $22.4 million plus 600,000 shares (current value: $15 million...
...Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...
...wartime chief of staff (since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true, I recommended that he find somebody that...