Word: amboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City Across the River (Universal-International), based on Irving Shulman's novel, The Amboy Dukes, and solemnly introduced by Drew Pearson, is another slum drama with a social message. It tells the story of a Brooklyn kid (Peter Fernandez) who joins a tough street gang (the "Dukes") and quickly goes wrong...
...explosive was announced to newsmen last week at the award of an Army & Navy "E"' pennant to a Du Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...