Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon was the only state in World War II to suffer civilian war casualties (six killed by a Jap balloon bomb), and except for California, the only state to be shelled by Jap subs...
Other players are also defective. Melville Cooper's interpretation of the father's role is hecurate, but he seemed to have learned only a small percentage of his lines by the third night of the Boston run. Doris Lloyd, his theatrical spouse, also went up like a balloon more than once, but her performance otherwise was effective, as were the other members of the cast...
...home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War anniversary party, that may be all right, but for the vast majority, including professionals, white-collarites and other moneygrubbers, these padded hips and four-yards-around-the-base balloon skirts will not fit into tiny apartment kitchens where the coffee and toast are rustled up each morning before the mad dash to the office begins...
...first year of its life, the Scientific American examined a new contraption, a balloon with a two-horsepower engine, and declared boldly that "the practicability of traveling rapidly and safely through the air has been . . . established...
...Match Game. The man who had blown up this merchandising phenomenon was Matthew Fox, 36, the bubble-shaped executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures. Matty Fox, whose pudgy fingers dabble in many side investments that have little to do with movies, got into balloon-blowing by way of the "everlasting match." The match, which could be struck 600 times, had been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal...