Word: previewer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash with grim reality. What we are swiftly approaching-are now actually in-is a now era in national and world affairs. This is a revolutionary period-almost a preview of Armageddon...
...Conference's discussion was war: how to keep rising prices from skyrocketing, whether national defense would increase or diminish the supply of consumer goods. The most significant address had little concern with the war. It was a "preview" of 1940's census results (TIME, Sept. 30) by Vergil D. Reed, assistant director and bright idea man of the Census Bureau. He i) smartly summed up the effect of population shifts on distribution, 2) described the trends in retail sales (mostly up), 3) brought out facts from the first complete nose count of U. S. time-sales companies. Sample...
...Nash, the No. 7 (in 1940 sales) producer, gave a preview of its big, bullet-shaped, roomy Ambassador 600. Of advance design (one-piece body and chassis), it will compete in the low-price range with Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth, who make more than 50% of U. S. sales. Fat, fast-talking Nash Chief, George Walter Mason blandly predicted a 100% sales jump, backed his hopes with $7,000,000 in development and plant expansion...
...account, subject to taxation only in so far as the plant proves useful after the emergency. They believe that competitive bidding on war orders should be waived, to allocate orders to the plants best equipped to supply them fastest (75.5%). Most of them have not yet been given a preview of M-Day. Only 6.6% had received definite instructions on what the Government expects their business to do in wartime; 35.6% did not know; 36.9% thought the Government has not yet got around to expecting anything...
Time in the Sun (Marie Seton). "As you watch, you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date of the movies." So wrote Critic Edmund Wilson in 1932 after a sneak preview of part of the 150,000 feet of film (feature length: around 8,000 ft.) which talkative, fuzzy-headed Director Sergei Michailovich Eisenstein, the Soviet Union's gift to cinema, had shot during a 14-month sojourn in Mexico...