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...insurance thinkers have been looking for a new, constructive answer. One idea that is causing conservatives to harrumph in the insurance board rooms: that an investment pool for new or expanding industries be formed, with insurance companies sup plying the "senior" capital. Effect: a kind of privately owned RFC. Likelihood: little; the insurance business as a whole is doing too well as it is to be receptive to radical new tinkerings...
Merchant Vessels: Work actually done TIME, August 9, 1943 was up 11% but ship deliveries were down about 100,000 deadweight tons from the May record. But "the 1943 objective . . . will in all likelihood...
Feat and Defeat. There was fine stuff in it, in great ill-digested, nervous chunks. But For Whom the Bell Tolls was not, by the kindest stretching of critical standards, a good picture. Nor was it reliable entertainment. Nor was the likelihood that it would pay its way more than a string of subjunctives.* It was, on a grand scale, a defeat of Hollywood by Hollywood. Censorship defeated it, and timidity; heavy investment defeated it, and pretentiousness; the very expectation of the public defeated it; and the desperate, driven, split, muddled desire to make a great picture and a great...
...also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...
...perspective of global war the victory was small. The Japanese struck with probably no more than 60,000 men. They lost perhaps no more than 10,000. The entire arena of combat was only 70 by 60 miles. There was little likelihood of a further change in the lines, as the Chinese Army lacked supplies to surge onward in a full offensive...