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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brockton, Mass., the dog-catcher heard a woman complain that a puppy had been peeking in her window every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...days (if he could get the lead out of the pants of the zombie who did the work)-that the only paper available would be usable if not ideal-that we would somehow manage to get him enough gelatin for the press roll ers-and that we would not complain too bitterly if his inferior ink smudged some of the illustrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

About the only objections to the original sequences is the treatment of the "Stage Door Canteen" number, in which a broken-hearted soldier tries to act lovingly toward his girl-to-be-he-hopes-except-for-the-hostess. Ordinarily we would be the last to complain about a little romance, but when we realize that the girl in question is really another soldier and maybe even the first guy is top sarge, "it looks sort of pointless--or worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/16/1943 | See Source »

...manager finally fired them. They couldn't complain because the other guy would have heard the other guy's voice...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...Saud's representatives for direct participation in the oil exploitation. This, if it went through, would be historic -for the first time in its history the U.S. Government would embark upon a career as a speculative oil magnate on foreign soil. Nor could New Deal "anti-imperialists" readily complain, for this was a pet project of oilman Harold L. Ickes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Oil & the Rabbis | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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