Word: crater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead or Alive Judge Joseph Force Crater may or may not have observed the twelfth anniversary of his disappearance. He was last seen entering a cab in Manhattan on August 6, 1930. The city's Missing Persons Bureau still gets false tips on his whereabouts, still keeps his case open. Insurance companies have closed it, have paid his widow...
...picture should be straight documentary or straight Hollywood, Producer Walter Wanger made it both. Somehow he manages to give a fairly coherent idea of what it is like to be an R.A.F. pursuit pilot, though hampered by a ragged plot and the fact that, whenever a convenient shell crater or ditch appears, someone is sure to pop into it for a long, dull, heart-to-heart talk...
Superman in the Volcano shows the wonderworker rescuing his newshen pal, Lois, from a belching crater, splicing a broken power line with uninsulated hands, blowing a sluice in the mountain so that a lava flow will miss the metropolis. There is never any suspense, since Superman always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists...
...Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were...
Telling of the way bomb damage is repaired in London, de Hoffman estimated that at the height of the raids, 8,000 men were constantly at work clearing up the damage to the transportation lines. A crater blown in the road at Charing Cross was so big, he said, that a public bridge was built over it and opened with proper ceremony...