Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patent-medicine company put out a new sedative tablet and proudly named it the Sleep of Peace. Prospective buyers could pick it up in a Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace girls" to boost the sales of its latest product, Peace cigarettes...
...which has always proved a friend in need for Henry Kaiser, came through last week with a $34.4 million loan for Kaiser-Frazer. RFC said some of the cash would be used to tool up for a complete line of cars. (K-F now makes only four-door sedans.) Detroit also heard that about $5,000,000 would be used to turn out a car for under $1500 to challenge Ford, Plymouth and Chevrolet. Henry Kaiser, who has paid back $67.6 million of his federal loans, now owes the government $149.8 million...
Unable to reach her by phone or to get an answer to a telegram, Davis, Pierre Lelandais '52, illiam EW.W. Gowen '52, and Charles J.N. Bailey '50 allegedly persuaded Dribben to accompany them in a dash across the country in Lelandais car to see Mis Leigh in person...
...balmy summer nights were much too nice to spend below decks, so many evenings were taken up with quiet outdoor amusements. Lifeboats were rated excellent substitutes for the parlor sofa or the back seat of the family car, and it was rumored that some of the blanket rolls on the boat deck were cood...
Dassin's erratic direction of actors produces some mixed results: Morris Car-novsky's generalized flourishes as a once-happy Greek, Lee Cobb's flabby, badly timed portrait of a marketeer, Millard Mitchell's hard-bitten acting of a tired truck driver. The Italian glitter girl, Valentina Cortesa, seems a likely candidate for the top-salaried star bracket. In the role of a waterfront fixture, she looks like an unemployed countess, but she spikes the role with a sweater-girl figure, viva-ciousness and great self-assurance...