Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
While bossing the Berlin airlift, Major General William H. Tunner -often thought of what the ideal military cargo plane should be like. Last week, at an "Air Cargo Day" meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Statler, he described it. It should have four engines and be able to carry 50,000 Ibs. of cargo on a 3,000-mile flight at 250 m.p.h. It should be able to fly at 20,000 ft., land on a 6,000-ft. runway. Engines and equipment should be designed for easy repair and cargo doors should be wide enough...
...blue cardboard placards in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt last week were signs announcing: "Profit sharing makes every worker a capitalist." The two-year-old Council of Profit Sharing Industries was holding its annual meeting, and it had plenty of figures to back up its slogan. Starting with 16 companies, the council has grown rapidly; it now represents 155 companies with gross sales of $3.5 billion a year. Last year the 240,000 employees in the companies received about $40 million in profits, or an addition of 5% to 117% to their regular wages...
...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...
Author Clare Barnes Jr., art director for the big Manhattan advertising agency of Benton & Bowles, got his idea while looking through a batch of animal photographs for an ad campaign last summer. In his search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July...