Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipment, to the London Zoo last year, brought protests in the House of Lords. Borne out of the hills in a sedan chair, the panda was flown from Calcutta and thence to London-while 11,000 Britons waited for air transport...
...Reynolds Bombshell took off from LaGuardia Field, stopped at Gander, then crossed the Atlantic in the record time of 5 hours and 16 minutes. It landed in Paris, roared on to Cairo and Karachi, with Reynolds passing out pens at all stops. The weather information was sketchy; at Calcutta the best an airport employee could tell them about prevailing winds came from an almanac...
...Calcutta (Paramount) is a conventional, well-made melodrama about two U.S. airmen (Alan Ladd, William Eendix) who undertake to find out who killed their best friend, and why. In the course of finding out, Ladd and the dead man's sweetheart (Gail Russell) make uneasy but interested eyes at each other. There is some effective singing in a nightclub (by June Duprez), such side dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang...
...Offstage there were ominous noises. Hindu v. Moslem riots broke out in Bombay and Calcutta, took a toll of more than 90 lives during the week...
...strong, repressive arm of law & order would be no permanent solution in a country where the average per capita wage is 5? a day and a quarter of the population of Bombay and Calcutta sleep on the streets. But the other horn of the dilemma is unrestrained freedom for communal and class conflict which, in a weak, new state, might disastrously degenerate into chaos. Patel is obviously going to try it his way. The Boss has performed miracles of organization before...