Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many observers believed that drastic action to step up production of defense materials was imminent. There was some discussion that it might take the form of a Presidential proclamation extending the present "limited" emergency. Some observers felt Roosevelt would keep this drastic move as an ace in the hole and limit his immediate action to a fireside chat emphasizing the need for prompt preparedness...
...world war ace pilot with four citations of the Croix do Guerre, Willis served as an ambulance driver this year in France until the armistice...
...Opposition had another ace as well: the Communists in the Popular Front. By persisting in an anti-U. S. propaganda campaign the Communists had given the Rightists the long end of a stinging popular issue. At the same time the Communists had been weakening the Popular Front from within by criticizing the policies of their less radical fellow Frontists...
...took the Hollywood Marines to open a brand-new topic. Fortnight ago, the 22nd Battalion of the Marine Corps Reserves under the command of wiry, abrupt, outspoken Major W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke II, ace M. G. M. director, was ordered to San Diego for active service. It was a great moment for Woody Van Dyke, who loves pomp and patriotism even more than pictures. Last fall he hung the stars and stripes outside his studio office, tacked up a sign proclaiming it a Marine recruiting station. After Thursday-night drills with his outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen...
Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, but with his own famed, seasoned Philadelphia Orchestra. For this recording job, no ordinary cinema sound equipment would do. So Disney's ace sound engineer, rangy, Brooklyn-born Bill Garity, developed a whole new system of gadgets capable of catching each section of the Philadelphia Orchestra on a separate sound track. By braiding and patching these sound tracks onto a four-ply master track, he could control the faintest breath of every last bassoon. In their recording operations Garity and Stokowski used 430,000 feet of sound track, cut and patched...