Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crack passenger trains limped into terminals as much as 20 hours late. In Chicago's Dearborn station, some 15,000 civilians stampeded to get aboard trains, lost shoes and baggage in the struggle. City and military police were called on the double-quick to quell the riot. The New York Central Railroad stopped the sale of all tickets on trains eastbound from Chicago. In Washington's Union Station, "recesses" were called for hour periods to help clear the jampacked station. All over, passengers missed connections, had no choice but to camp in stations...
...Expendable has to say or do anything embarrassingly mushy or heroic. No one has to crack any bad jokes: Characters are brought in without formal introduction and bowed out before the audience gets to know them well. Human relationships are indicated sharply but briefly. In trying to steer between war melodrama and straight documentary reporting, Expendable beats a middle course through waters that are too rough for speed...
...Many crack officers would be gone by year's end. Soon to go was energetic, ambitious, 53-year-old Brehon B. Somervell, who as chief of the Army Service Forces ran history's greatest supply job. Already back in civilian life was Lieut. General William Knudsen, the War Department's tireless coordinator and trouble shooter on war industry's production line...
...Johnson, a Nebraska farm boy and an educational iconoclast. He made it a unique adult school, short of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but far above the dreary, text-bound trade schools which pass for adult education in most U.S. cities. Its faculty is heavily loaded with crack refugee professors from Europe. It keeps school in a modernistic, seven-story, Joseph Urban-designed building in Greenwich Village, now has 5,700 pupils...
...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...