Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that it had imposed; in buying most of the Treasury's huge issue, FRB had increased the amount of money available for loans to its member banks. If the banks took advantage of this, commercial loans, in the end, might rise even more. In short, before FRB could make its sensible anti-inflationary policy effective, it had to have a showdown with Snyder...
...youthful industry has had its share of growing pains. After World War II, the business was invaded by scores of shoestring operators who tried to make a quick cleanup, flooded the market with tasteless, badly packed products and scared off so many consumers that sales slumped 20%. In 1947, more than 200 firms went bankrupt. But last year the industry hit its stride. More than 20% of all U.S. poultry (200 million Ibs.) came to dinner by way of the freezer. All told, the industry sold 1,130 million Ibs. of frozen foods and twelve million gallons of juice concentrate...
...palatial estates, but in tidy suburbs resembling Baltimore's Roland Park and Cleveland's Shaker Heights. They proved excellent interviewees because "the level of frustration was high, and frustrated people love to talk." The anonymous case histories indicate that Hollywoodians are frustrated because 1) they make more money than other people in the U.S., and 2) are constantly worried about being fired...
Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...equality, and equality to stagnation-which is death . . . The multitude is never free . . ." The happiest men are to be found in "deserts^ monasteries." It soon becomes apparent, in fact, that Saint-Ex wanted the passion for God and love to flourish in a social framework which would shortly make violent rebels of most men of spirit...