Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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If Congress gave him the taxes and limited powers he had requested, Truman insisted, inflation could be avoided without all-out controls. He declared that "serious shortages of consumer goods will not develop unless they are created artificially." He urged buyers to "refrain from hoarding or avarice," urged producers to...
But the market's character had changed. Stocks of companies which seemed most likely to feel the first cutbacks in civilian production (notably television) made little headway. The big demand was for shares of aircraft, oil, steel, railroad, rubber and other industries likely to get war orders. The railroads...
"Auf Wiedersehen . . ." The opening scenes show a German company moving up to the Cassino front. The major character, Pfc. Gühler, obviously a facsimile of Author Richter, believes that the Nazi army is doomed; his buddies are beginning to doubt the Führer's omnipotence. Some German...
Since the war, says Ebony, "Negroes have been getting more and more money and less and less religion." Few of the 50,000 Negro churches in the U.S. draw regularly more than 40% of their membership on Sundays, compared to 65% a generation ago. The reason: "change in the character...
After seeing his performance in The Men, Hollywood began to believe Brando's extravagant advance publicity. His personal eccentricities, as well as his acting skill, had the film colony agog. He appeared to be the first genuine "character" since Garbo. Dressed in his usual cotton T-shirt and greasy...