Word: delay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Circle Salesman. After a delay of one week due to weather, Milton Reynolds, the ball-point king, finally took off in his converted A26 attack bomber from LaGuardia Field on a flight in which he hoped to circle the globe in a record-shattering 60 hours (present record: 91 hours, 14 minutes, set by Howard Hughes in 1938). No pilot, Penman Reynolds was "navigator...
...below seven or eight figures if x thousand bombs were delivered on the most densely populated areas of the United States." There should be deep, underground shelters, specially designed buildings, protected food stocks. Eventually, the "concentrated spatial pattern of industrial nations" should be readjusted. But that is only another delay: "... Any readjustment may well be overcome by increases in the number and effectiveness of the atomic bombs in the arsenals of the world...
Many a radioman agreed with FCC, even though the decision was bound to delay color. CBS's Stanton said sadly that CBS could not afford to spend much more cash on color. Black & white would have the field to itself, and RCA would be out ahead. (It now manufactures most of the sets being turned...
...good historical triangle in the Miles Standish-Priscilla Mullins-John Alden business, molded assorted Pilgrims and Indians into some stock but sound musical comedy characters, and came through with a creation that manages not to sag between the songs, which is no small feat. Nor do the songs delay the action of the book. Both come together into a balanced musical that is played with the sort of informal enthusiasm that can make a good amteur show more entertaining than all but the best of professional shows...
...title on sunburned skin-makes Hollywood's normally brassy efforts in this line look pale. Duel is currently showing only in Los Angeles; the plan is to blanket the country, area by area, during the spring and summer, releasing some 350 prints before fall. Reasons for the distribution delay: 1) labor troubles have delayed Technicolor processing; 2) difficulties with United Artists have forced Mr. Selznick to set up his own distribution machinery (Selznick Releasing Organization) overnight; 3) Duel has raised more eyebrows and run into more censorship trouble than any other movie since The Outlaw (TIME, June...