Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
...manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices. In Chicago, Admiral Corp.'s quick-stepping President Ross Siragusa thought he knew a good way to do it. On the big, fancy-looking console jobs, about one-third of the cost went into furniture. Why not start cutting there...
Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...
...shabby-best Hotel Reale, and the three talked far into the night. Next day, "for the protection of my family," Ingrid issued a statement: "I have met my husband here and have discussed and clarified our situation . . ." No one thought that the statement clarified anything, but she and Rossellini went back to l'isola nera to finish their picture. Dr. Lindstrom, back in Rome, made a statement of his own just before he took a plane for the U.S. "There will be no divorce . . ." He added wearily: "Italy is a beautiful country, but it is too full of fantasies...
Boston Saw Red. When all the 50 human cylinders in him were popping in rapid succession, Dickens was a holy terror. He went into a rage if a single piece of furniture in his house was moved or left untidied; he pinned angry notes to his quaking daughters' pincushions, urging them to better habits. On the other hand, he thought nothing of suddenly taking off and striding madly 15 or 20 miles through the night streets of London, or of popping through the window into a friend's drawing room, dressed as a sailor and dancing a hornpipe...