Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...
...whom Christians believe is . . . not merely the Creator, the Lawgiver, the wise and righteous Moral Governor, but something far more wonderful: He is the One who gives us what He demands of us, provides the obedience that He requires . . . But the whole experience of this . . . has come into our lives through . . . Jesus Christ. . . the one life which was wholly divine and wholly human...
Maybe Another Year. In the old days, Caruso was paid $2,500 a night-2½ times what the Met now pays its Melchiors and Ponses. But other expenses had risen sharply. Most show-wise Broadwayites agreed with the directors that the Met couldn't safely raise the price of its orchestra seats above the present $7.50. The antiquated horseshoe house seats less than 3,500, one-third the capacity of municipal auditoriums in such cities as Cleveland, St. Louis, Seattle. As long ago as 1925 Otto Kahn had told the management it needed a new house...
That was just what publicity-wise Christian Dior had in mind. He had already obtained quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, signed up a team of U.S. assistants. This fall he hopes to start mass-producing a line of about 90 dresses to wholesale in the U.S. at $59.75 and up. Though they will have "wing" and "cyclone" effects, the dresses will be a "conservative evolution" of his Paris models, designed with one eye on U.S. tastes and the other on the limitations of machine production...
Chance to Purr. Earnings-wise, the regular airlines have had their worst twelve months in history. Yet, as the American Aviation Daily pointed out, "The combined losses of American, T.W.A. and United for the year 1947 would have been offset had [they carried] all of the passengers moving by nonsked carriers...