Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Finland's state-controlled radio Paasikivi himself set the sugary tone. Said he: "We can look with confidence toward the future." In Moscow, Prime Minister Pekkala had already thanked the Soviet Union for its "benevolent attitude." Editors and politicians took the official cue. Finland, which had wanted no treaty at all, found itself rejoicing at having made the "best possible deal under the circumstances...
Phillips Brooks House needs men to help the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association distribute TB posters in Cambridge. Work counts toward membership in PBH. Interested parties should leave their name in the PBH office between 3 and 5 o'clock...
...birthday girl. For Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton, Alfred Drake) toward Broadway or Hollywood fame. And to her happy angels (among them: Producers Max Gordon and Lee Shubert, Playwright S. N. Behrman) she had paid...
...quiet announcement from the National Military Establishment Munitions Board last week gave U.S. industry a minor shock. Said Board Chairman*Thomas J. Hargrave, president of Eastman Kodak Co.: the first steps toward industrial mobilization of U.S. plants for war have been taken. The new program bore the jawbreaking name of "Allocation of Private Industrial Capacity for Procurement Planning of the Armed Services"-or APICPPAS, for short...
...space of four days the W.S.S.F. relief drive has gone more than half way toward its proposed goal of $20,000, with a total to date of something over $15,000. While such striking proof of student enthusiasm toward an urgent cause seems unusually favorable, one fact remains far less encouraging: contributions from the Faculty and Graduate Schools have been shamefully small. More than $12,000 of the current total has come from undergraduates...