Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The U.S. had promised to deliver 300,000,000 pounds of meat to UNRRA in the first three months of 1946-but by last week UNRRA had received only 3.1% of the quota.
Frank Sinatra still had no cause for worry. A truck driver bound for Hoboken, N.J. had to fight off an attacking party of hijackers before he could deliver his highly prized cargo: Sinatra recordings, $30,000 worth.
With the truth finally out, the U.S. could now get on with its duty. It had promised to deliver 225,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad by July 1. Even this amount, in view of the worsening world food crisis, would only alleviate hunger, not cure it.
In Paris, right-wing Socialist bigwigs sputtered that Nenni, "like Harold Laski," talked too much. Socialists would not form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London...
The picture's humor is as broad as its action is fast. The script is virtually actor-proof: all the characters are kept so busy ducking bullets, knives and pottery that they rarely get a chance to deliver a line, let alone muff one. But beauteous Yvonne de Carlo...