Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Cole is right. I have not distinguished between a movie which arouses prejudice and one which merely offends the arbitrarily imposed moral standards of a minority group. If the CRIMSON had printed the full text of my letter...
...bulls had history in their favor. In twelve out of the last 18 years, the short interest peak was reached just before the market started up. The bears had guessed right only ,six times. Their failure was even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street...
...that the drop in buying was caused less by a lack of customers' cash than a stubborn rebellion against high prices. Though businessmen grumbled about recession, it was still the most prosperous recession the U.S. had ever had. Consumers' dollars could still be lured out for the right product at the right price...
...Edwin H. Land, 40, Polaroid's black haired, bright-eyed president, could thank his ten-year-old daughter Jennifer for the idea for his new camera. Several years ago, when he took a snapshot of Jeffie, she demanded to know why she couldn't have a print right away. That got him thinking about a camera that would have a "built-in darkroom" (TIME, March 3, 1947), and he developed one that printed 3 by 5 photos. that were simply peeled off the negative...
Streets of Laredo (Paramount) spins a drawling Technicolored yarn about three Texas badmen who are buddies. Two of them (William Holden and William Bendix) eventually go straight and get jobs as Texas Rangers. The third, MacDonald Carey, goes right on rustling cattle and robbing banks. All three, in one way or another, get romantically entangled with a pale-lipped chit of a cowgirl (Mona Freeman) who takes a pretty nearsighted view of right & wrong...