Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcoholic Content. In Beloit, Wis., Fisherman Louis Mclntyre took a 21¾-lb. muskellunge to a taxidermist, who looked inside, found a full 12-oz. bottle of beer...
...Italians in London would negotiate as hard as they could to keep Eritrea and Somaliland, might be content there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because...
Most of the warplane makers have been content to leave the small plane market alone, so far. But not Republic Aviation Corp. It already has a foot in the door, and as soon as it winds up production of its Thunderbolt, it plans to set up an assembly line for its four-place amphibian, the Seabee. Republic said that it already has orders for 3,500 on hand, hopes to turn out 5,000 in the next year...
...them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many moral and psychological implications. Tensions grow as the characters develop a pervasive fear of death...
...happy, peaceful moment, the victors were content to survey the inscrutable vanquished and to be glad the Japs had had sense enough to quit. One G.I. looked from a plane at the tumbled hills and mountains of Honshu's spine and said: "Am I glad I don't have to fight over this country-just like Okinawa...