Word: cuttings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Might as well beat the ladies to this one. Is Charles Boyer as bald as your cut on p, 60, TIME, Dec. 4, would have us movie fans believe...
...river stages in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, TVA's area in the South cut down the hydroelectric power supply, sent steam-plant output soaring. TVA with all its dams, had to turn on fuel burning plants which it took over from Commonwealth & Southern last summer...
...long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board for Comrade Litvinoff's clean-cut, often stirring theses-against aggression, for the rights of small nations, on the immorality...
...same tactics worked at Suomussalmi, past which a Russian column was thrusting across Finland's narrowest part toward Uolu on the Gulf. In a four-day battle the Finns cut the roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...
...miles of the Finnish-Norwegian frontier, while all along that same line the desperate Finns were battling to delay the swift Russian advance. The Russians had cut off Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean, were holding the northern end of the Arctic Highway, and were again threatening the Finnish supply lines from Sweden by a swift southward thrust on the highway...