Word: canuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undercover men grubbing around in lower Manhattan. Here you have six men from a German U-boat battling through the wheat fields of Canada. There's plenty of action; lots of dialogue (though some of it sounds more like a made-on-purpose speech than anything a tobacco-chewing Canuck might sputter); and such fifth-magnitude twinklers as Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, and Raymond Massey perfume the bill. The only trouble is, there's no suspense. The audience knows that the six are marked men. All it has to do is sit back and gloat while six mouthsful of dust...
...freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with T.N.T., blew up after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of land. To a defender it is valuable as a base for ranging out to sea against an invader, flanking him if he gets through...