Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that the twain never quite meet, but that the East has made so much progress in ways of the West. Thailand's roads are remarkable; her trains run on time. The curious paradox in Thailand's position is that being on Japan's little list for Greater East Asia, she is threatened by an eastern power which has developed western techniques of warfare. Last week Thailand was doing what she could to neutralize her paradox...
...awaited reward for followers of cob-nosed Comedian W. C. Fields. The reward is the more rewarding because his recent pictures were impeded by the disconcerting presence of irrelevant comics. In this one, the Sultan of Sloth finally achieves the kind of delightful outrage which has made his fan list long & faithful. There are 74 minutes of almost clear Fields-as much a one-man show as the fences of cinema formula will allow...
...grow more so. Government spending was multiplied; the 76th Congress appropriated more than $17 billions. Interest rates on capital continued to fall. The National Labor Relations Board underwent a personnel shakeup, but Wagner Act modification was less likely than ever. Government regulation in general, previously little more than a list of "Don'ts," began to turn into positive control. Every well-editorialized reason why Business should hold back was more conspicuous than ever...
...year's end the industry had expanded its floor space 30%. But its backlog was growing faster, was equal to about a year of capacity operation. On Dec. 4 a large new list of machine tools was subjected to export priority control. Bill Knudsen scolded the industry for not doing more subcontracting. Meanwhile, investors showed less interest in machine-tool stocks than they might have if their low capitalization had not marked them for plucking by the excess-profits...
...year's heap of good books and bad, some 50 were outstanding. Some of these emerged because they were popular, some because they were soundly researched or written, a few because they may endure. The list...