Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Since her last picture, The Two-Faced Woman (1941), Garbo has kept busy ignoring rumors. In Washington last week, she was back on the screen-thanks to the Thomas Committee's anti-Communist inquiry. At the hearings M-G-M had been criticized for making Song of Russia...
Then the committee summoned Major General Bennett Meyers, wartime deputy chief of procurement, who retired in 1945. A burly, balding man with a bristle-brush mustache, Meyers had had his troubles. After a trip to North Africa (where Elliott Roosevelt's photo-reconnaissance squadron was stationed), Assistant Secretary of...
The European has a sex life; the Englishman has his hot-water bottle; this is why His Majesty's Colonel Ray Milland can't quite get acclimated to. Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact...
The committee's busy statisticians counted nearly 25 million bushels already in the bag. Of this amount they figured 12 million bushels saved through the distillers' shutdown, 3,000,000 more from the brewers, 9,000,000 from the bakers. Between them, the Army & Navy expected to save...
The Thinker. A stocky, powerfully built man with a scholar's face, Simonsen is not just a moneymaker. Intellectual as well as industrialist, he founded the São Paulo School of Economics, has written 17 books, including the definitive two-volume Economic History of Brazil. Recently he was...