Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death Battle. The "Golden Gator" lost another engine, and a third was stalling. Captain Hinze dived sharply to windmill the engine back into action, skimming so low over a small island that the tail took a chunk out of a tree. The "Golden Gator" climbed hopefully again, but this time twin-engined Jap fighters attacked...
Most corporations, faced with renegotiations, still took a cautious view of the future, especially dividend-wise. The Department of Commerce reported that dividends paid in December brought the year's total to $3,541,400,000, up only $12,600,000 over the preceding year. A large chunk of the rest of profits went into reserves to cushion the shock of reconversion...
...Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend had not said to him : "Sonny, I can't understand why you're not in pictures." Neither could Sonny, so he went to Hollywood. For his screen test he chose a solemn chunk of Liebestod which had originally been strained through velvet by Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, played it for laughs. When he saw Sonny's test, Producer Mark Sandrich, who was looking for a lackadaisical Kansas Marine for So Proudly We Hail, nearly rolled out of his chair. Government Girl...
...Meat. Most substantial chunk in the speech for U.S. citizens to chew on was Ambassador Gromyko's "belief" that the Soviet Union expects to cooperate with the U.S. after the war : "The present joint struggle against our common foe-Hitlerite Germany and her allies in Europe-will bring about closer collaboration of our countries in the postwar period, in the interests of general peace." Discreetly tucked away behind the garnishing was a small tough bite. The Soviet still knows when the war really started and who stopped Hitler: "During the entire two years of this stubborn struggle . . . the heaviest...
...black." Stubbornly sticking to these ideas, he continued to turn out his Model T until it was hopelessly obsolete. Up-&-coming Chevrolet-and the modernizing influence of his late son Edsel-forced him to junk Model T in 1927. By then he had lost a big chunk of the cheap-car market. He has never regained it. From then on Edsel's influence caused the Ford Co. to cater to the public. Edsel established the styling division-Fords had been designed by Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. up till then-made Fords slicker, more eye-pleasing. He launched...