Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. decided to tell its version of what it did in World War II. In a voluminous account last week, it underlined that munitions-making 1) is not its chief business, 2) had not been before...
Discounting this excessive hands-across-the-sea mateyness, audiences will find that Yank makes its point, gives an amusing, revealing, often shrewd account of American soldiers in Britain, and of British forbearance during the only successful invasion of the island since...
...room for at least a few favorable reports of significant developments in the Protestant Church. . . ? Publicity is given to one, [Senator] Bob Wagner, who has accepted baptism from the hand of a Roman Catholic priest [TIME, Feb. 11], Why not be fair next week and publish an account of the conversion of one of several Roman Catholic priests who have entered the Protestant Church in America? . . . (REV.) DONALD MACLEOD Princeton...
...road, very fast and with both hands off the wheel most of the time. During the course of the drive, she missed by a hair two other cars, a cow, a drove of horses, a wagon and a road scraper but not a feint in the blow by blow account of the fight between her liver and her bile. Her liver was so sluggish that it had constantly to be primed in order to make it pump her bile. . . . Just before we went into the auditorium of the schoolhouse, she took two of the priming pills and I was very...
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 admittedly played a gallant role in the delaying action of the Philippine retreat. But MGM has succumbed to the usual temptation of ascribing too much glory to too small a company. What was originally an honest account of the P.T. boats' performance has now been magnified and somewhat distorted; too many guns and too much shooting have detracted from the realism which could have made this one of the few really good war pictures...