Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he would exile himself from the U.S. if his mammoth Hercules flying boat failed to fly. The world's biggest plane, which had cost the Government $18 million (and Hughes $7 million of his own), was one of the targets of the committee's probe (TIME, Aug. 11) into the affairs of the man-of-many-businesses. But Hughes had no intention of exiling himself. Early last August, a crew of 100 men began working round-the-clock shifts, seven days a week, to complete the plywood plane...
Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of the Dominion of India, got the royal nod from his cousin, George VI, on his selection of titles to go with his new earldom (TIME, Aug. 25). Henceforth, it was announced in London, he will be known as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey of Romsey...
...first expulsion of an M.P. in 25 years. Allighan had written a sensational article for the World's Press News, accusing unnamed M.P.s of selling confidential information to the press (TIME, Aug. 11). Aware that there are 46 working journalists in the House, the horrified Committee of Privileges had investigated. It found that Glass-House Garry himself had accepted ?30 a week from the Evening Standard for supplying information...
...terrific." When he first signed the slinky, unknown actress Li Lihua, he told his friends simply: "I am setting out a beautiful tree that money drops from." He was right. Li's first movie packed them in. Last week her latest, The Barber Takes a Wife (TIME, Aug. 4), was breaking all Shanghai box-office records, giving every promise of being the biggest cinematic smash China had ever seen...
Life With Father. A stolid but efficient Technicolor version of the stage hit, with William Powell and Irene Dunne (TIME, Aug...