Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of hapless non-Russians and 275,000 square miles of territory for greater "security"), the Kremlin was expected to cooperate in the world's steep climb back toward recovery and peace. The U.N. Charter had been signed in such unrealistic hope. For One World was the 20th Century's pathetic fallacy. Since the war's end there had been two worlds— one (the greater one) headed, by reason of its unparalleled power, by the U.S., which craved nothing so much as universal, permanent peace; the other, consisting of Russia and her satellites, dedicated by reason...
...nation's infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...
...money the second time around than it did in the original release. M-G-M followed up by reissuing Boomtown (1940), The Great Waltz (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Warner Bros, dusted off King's Row (1941), The Sea Hawk (1940) and The Sea Wolf (1941), and 20th Century-Fox tried another round of Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (20th Century...
Kiss of Death (20th Century-Fox) illustrates a new and vigorous trend in U.S. moviemaking. One of the best things that is happening in Hollywood is the tendency to move out of the place-to base fictional pictures on fact, and, more importantly, to shoot them not in painted studio sets but in actual places. In making this kind of realistic "locale" movie, 20th Century-Fox has been the leader-with The House on 92nd St., 13 Rue Madeleine and Boomerang...