Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
...ball in a neighboring village, and invite all the nurses -even though it's breaking the book for enlisted men and officers to "socialize."' But that dog Kovacs. a fellow with a suspicious nature and an investigative turn of mind, soon begins to sniff the wind. "They're up to something!" he mutters. "I can smell it! I can taste it!" Day after day his spies report-nothing. Day after day, in snap inspections, he finds-nothing...
Austerity & Growth. Finance Minister Ichimada does not expect an overnight cure for Japan's expansion troubles. Japan's international payments may actually wind up $400 million in the red by the end of fiscal 1958. But for fiscal 1959 he hopes to balance Japanese trade by boosting exports to $3.1 billion while holding imports to $3.2 billion. Instead of leaping ahead by 10% to 20% each year, national income and industrial production may only grow 3% or 4% next year. Says Finance Minister Ichimada, who calls himself "a realistic optimist": "Our keynote is austerity. There...
...money movie of all time. Already seen by almost 22 million moviegoers, the 3-hr. 39-min. spectacle has grossed more than $29 million in only 917 theaters (a top hit can easily run in 15,000). The big money champion up to now, Gone With the Wind ($33.5 million since 1939), will soon be outdistanced. After some 40 years of moviemaking, DeMille's skilled old hand once again blends, to the public's obvious liking, an unbeatable mixture of color, bigness, heroics, sex and oldtime religion...
...this pattern of selling sex and violence for their own worth is characteristic of the modern European cinema, as Bosley Crowther suggested in the Times, one hopes that a change in the wind will be shortly forthcoming...