Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compliments and thanks for "Fever Chart" and "Appointment in Samara" in TIME, Oct. 27. They are the tops. Written as though from a mountaintop where we get in one view significance of the past, pathos and confusion of the present, doom in the future unless we wake up with a bang...
...price of copper went to 16?. Phelps Dodge dusted off long-drawn openpit plans, issued $28,000,000 in convertible 3½% debentures, began moving the 46,000,000-ton mountaintop...
...Furanghi ordered Iranian troops to cease resistance to the Anglo-Russian advances. The order took a while to filter through. Next day hard-of-hearing Russians bombed Kazvin, set afire thousands of gallons of gasoline Russia could have used. But 1,500 miles to the east on a mountaintop at Simla, General Sir Archibald Wavell, commanding the Indian Army and the British share of the Iranian operation, could collapse his figurative telescope, order himself a great big literal drink. Because...
...made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried the legislative father of old CAA, were responsible for all three crashes in 1940. The voice of an oldtime airline airman seconded him: Dave Behncke, president of potent Air Line Pilots' Association...
Reticent about discussing money, Oboler admits he is making twice as much as anybody should. He is having Frank Lloyd Wright design a $20,000 house for a 25-acre mountaintop he owns in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific. Feature of the place (name: "Aeire") is a stream which according to present plans will run through the Oboler living room. On his mountaintop Oboler plans to do further experimental work for the radio. He realizes his responsibilities. "I have," he says, "a larger audience now than Shakespeare ever...