Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania: F. J. Torrance Baker '38, 341 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh...
These regional pacts, the resolution stipulated, must be based on "selfhelp and mutual aid." The Western Union countries would have to show they meant business. Said Vandenberg: the resolution "applies to security the same formula we have applied to economic recovery...
Other people began to wonder about the price of rice-and of peace. Was the U.S. indeed striving for peace-or for appeasement? The U.S. had not told any of its friends what it was doing; some Western European diplomats felt as though a vague but vast doublecross was going on over their heads. One Paris theory: that the U.S. would withdraw support from Western Union in exchange for a Russian promise to muzzle Communist parties outside Russia and the satellite states. The other, more widespread-guess among Europe's startled statesmen was that the U.S. was merely trying...
...road, the river, the rooftops, the mountains and the holiday throngs are braided into a clear flowing stream utterly unlike anything Western artists have achieved. The makers of modern documentary movies might learn something from a study of Clear and Bright...
Selznick agreed to lend Korda his constellation of stars* in return for western hemisphere ownership of all pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules...