Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newspaper advertising revenue has not kept pace with retail sales, other business growth. Newspaper revenue (advertising and circulation), which was .9% of the national income in 1919 and mounted to 1.49% in 1933, is now down to 1.11% (but it is still around $900,000,000, better than in any except the best years...
...finally determining factor in winning the last World War, but . . . even more than Nazi Germany, we have been responsible for losing the peace and bringing on the present World War. We insisted on our rights and spurned our duties. . . . We repudiated the League of Nations . . . and thus set the pace for all its later floutings by other powers. Moreover, we selfishly and shortsightedly refused to forgive the Inter-Allied debts and thereby prevented any timely forgiving of the fateful German reparations. The result is that Germany now has Hitler, while we are accumulating a debt for national defense which makes...
Enough aircraft makers had reported their second-quarter 1941 earnings by last week to prove one startling fact: despite the industry's terrific production pace, its first-half profits rose less than run-of-the-mill industrials. Five top-flight plane builders (Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, Martin, North American, United) netted $27,229,000 in the first six months, only 21% over 1940. But a cross section of U.S. industry (135 motors, steels, oils, etc.) was able to boost profits 30% (TIME...
Scene II: Many hours to the east the warship slows its pace. Another warship appears-this one British. The President, on deck, watches a small boat coming near, recognizes from pictures the squat figure in the sea cape, the cherubic face under a white yachting...
...clear that Author Helen MacInnes has studied the slick screen thrillers of her compatriot Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc.). Her first novel makes fast reading. Speeded up to her master's pace, it would make still better screening...