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Word: cartoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrapnel and reached the side of a five-story building once occupied by the Jinsen Milling Co. It was riddled with gunfire, a fire roared in the top two stories and black smoke billowed from its roof. Further on, in a shattered, deserted street, we saw a large cartoon snowing a powerfully muscled arm holding a spindly little guy labeled "USA" while another strong arm hit him over the head with a gigantic hammer. "Some propaganda, huh?" said Sergeant Barnett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: For God, For Country, But Not... | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Valley (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is the second in the series of short Technicolored nature documentaries that Walt Disney launched in 1948 with his Oscar-winning Seal Island. Photographed with enormous patience and resourcefulness by Cameraman Alfred G. Milotte, and put together with the sprightly humor of a Disney cartoon, it is an intimate record of wild life in & around a beaver pond in the Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...week, at least, an American had the last word: he was Rube Goldberg, who nailed Russia's lying version of the facts in a memorable cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Down, One to Go | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Mysterious West | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Business and Professional Women's Club poured tea in a villa where according to legend Giovanni Boccaccio met one of the voluptuous heroines of his Decameron. An Italian movie company held a special screening of an animated cartoon called The Rose of Baghdad, which allegedly had been inspired by the work of UNESCO. No one was quite sure what Boccaccio or Baghdad had to do with the organization's work; but then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Rose of Baghdad | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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