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...Arms (Goldwyn-RKO). Midway of Up In Arms, a couple of soldiers lean on a rail and gaze moonily down on a deckload of Army nurses. The nurses, the 34 most eye-straining creatures Sam Goldwyn could pick for the job, are sprawled about in revealing pastel playsuits. Says one of the soldiers reverently: "Boy! We didn't have anything like that in the last war." Says the other as devoutly: "We don't have anything like it in this war, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Eleven ships leaving for Russia, including steamer with airplane motors and 28 long-range guns. One steamer has deckload airplanes, below deck airplane motors, Boeing and Douglas airplane parts on steamer with Curtiss-Wright airplanes, motors and small munitions, searchlights and telegraphic material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Old-Fashioned Spy | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Plot Thickens. In March, when one of these ships was spotted running at full speed with a deckload of oil drums, suspicion first turned on Gough. In April, when the ship docked at Cristobal, she was searched. One man was found carrying plans of the Coco Solo Naval Air Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: The Case of Captain Gough | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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