Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme is not new. Denver's hard-driving Robert S. Palmer, 41-year-old mining association secretary, has been urging it for years. But the cost was only one barrier. The tunnel would interlace through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes...
...their over lavish settings, are ideal meat for the color camera and although Nelson Eddy never was too appealing as an actor, he can roll that bartone of his. Claude Rains, of "Casablanca" fame, portrays the third violinist, and incidentally, the masked phantom. Eddy and the gondrame officer, Edward Barrier, put on a rather amusing and seemingly original Alphonse and Gaston performance at the mere presence of the budding opera star, Susanna Foster...
...preacher seeks a sermon, any statesman a goal, any thinker a philosophy, they (and all the rest of us) have before us the highest purpose of all in leading the inevitable fight against the last barrier that separates us from true universal brotherhood. Not nationalism itself, but its breeding ground -ignorance, stupidity, greed, traditionalism -are the enemies of the people...
...Above Naples the Germans might make a stand behind the Volturno River, where the old Romans posted a garrison and Garibaldi beat the Neapolitans. Above Rome, they might run a barricade along the Apennines, from La Spezia on the Ligurian Sea to Rimini on the Adriatic. Above that barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads...
...Helsinki there was talk that the barrier to peace was Baron Mannerheim and the General Staff, who insisted on keeping Soviet Karelia as a "practical guarantee." Others said that Ryti & Co. might have to step down before peace negotiations could begin. Said Tanner sadly...