Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...general, the America's Future broadcasts stress the overtaxing of the public, the value of free enterprise, and the dangers of the welfare state. But listeners have also heard that Britain has "moved into the twilight and confusion and frustration of a Planned Economy" and it is beginning to realize that it has "lost much of" its "precious heritage of freedom." According to America's Future, England has "wide-spread poverty, despair, distrust among friends and antagonism between employer and employee...
Fred L. Whipple, Professor of Astronomy, last Sunday announced a new theory on the twilight glow that appears after subset. Whipple attributed the so called zodiacal light to particles of cosmic dust in space...
...finance this week warned against straitjacketing the nation's rearmament economy with price & wage controls. In an all-out war, said Russell C. Leffingwell, who at 72 had just stepped down from the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc., such controls are necessary. But in the twilight period of half-war, half-peace that lies ahead, they would stifle the economy. The basic problem, wrote Leffingwell in Barren's, is to stimulate production, discourage nonessential civilian consumption. Price-fixing, he insisted, would do neither...
Some time after noon he would rise and begin opening bottles for a new day. By dusk the studio would be crowded, and Pascin would be ready to paint. He worked quickly and easily. As his guests got gayer, his canvas would get greyer, misted over with the tender twilight sadness that characterized his art. At nightfall he would encase his prematurely aged body in a dapper black suit, jam a black bowler hat on his head and announce that he was ready to go out on the town...
There are still some problems, but already Squadron 375 can laugh at the treacherous twilight. Every other day a stripped-down B-29 takes off on a 3,500-mile "Ptarmigan flight" to the pole and back. So far, no plane has been lost on the ice cap. Married officers often save bits of in-flight lunch and bring it home to their kids as a present from Santa Claus. Lots of mementos (e.g., flags) have been dropped on the pole itself. Cracked one pilot: "A few more drops and we'll be sent back in to police...