Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question, as Humpty Dumpty told Alice, was simply who was to be master. When it arose, last week, in three big U.S. corporations, each handled it in a different...
Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board, prodded by the big carriers, announced that it would ground the nonskeds as of June 20. After that, any "large" irregular carrier (i.e., flying any airplane heavier than 10,000 Ibs.) would have to have CAB's permission to stay in business. In granting permits, CAB would hold the nonskeds accountable for such past sins as flying on what amounted to regular schedules, and thus, according to scheduled airlines, taking business away from them. Anybody who got a permit would have to stick to irregular charter service...
...flaws. As a Cuban Gestapo man, Pedro (The Pearl) Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from the man who made Treasure of the Sierra...
...Pratt's eleven are Civil War generals, all of them Northern. The best of the studies in this group is that of George H. Thomas, "the old gray mare of the Union," a Virginia-born artilleryman who commanded infantry and was certain that the chief role of the big guns was to give the footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming; all they...
From the U.S. Army of World War I, Pratt picks Charles P. Summerall, another artilleryman who rose to be a corps commander. Unlike his big-gun colleagues who advocated steamroller barrages, Summerall believed in pinpoint targets, but what endears him most to Pratt is his flat belief that "artillery exists only to protect and support infantry...