Word: depots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late that afternoon the M-2 had not been heard from. Out from the naval depot at Gosport sped an alarm. Navy men scurried from their homes, from cinemas, from pubs, from dance halls. Minesweepers, destroyers, every available ship put out into Dead Man's Bay. Searchlights dug into the fog, were reflected back in a sickly glare. Soon after midnight trawls struck an obstruction. News was flashed to every city in Britain; everyone breathed easier. Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered divers down at daybreak...
...Union Depot (Warner). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is an alert hobo who, after stealing a hat and coat from a men's washroom, reconnoitres in the station until he has a good suit of clothes, a roll of bills and a girl. His tramp companion picks up a parcel check which Fairbanks cashes for a violin case full of counterfeit money. Detectives looking for the counterfeiter find Fairbanks, when he is helping his girl to rid herself of a perverse admirer who wears dark glasses and a crippled foot. Eventually Fairbanks clears himself, but not until the counterfeiter, trying to retrieve...
...Bright wrote dialog in their own idiom, the original authors, Gene Fowler and Joe Laurie Jr., were obviously thinking of Grand Hotel and possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema?artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost over before you remember to take your coat off. When you leave the theatre, you realize that you have been fooled, which is the purpose of such entertainments. Good shot: Fairbanks and his hobo companion...
Every person should be taught how to wear and use a gas mask. A depot of masks should be available in every community. Those who cannot handle masks -children, invalids, the aged, the wounded -should have cellar refuges. Large cities should have several refuge districts with a protected cellar in each. Every new, large building should have a gas-proof basement. The cellars should be ventilated through tall chimneys. This is essential, because poison gases discharged from either ground or airplane tanks are heavy, settle close to earth. Outside of each community there should be safety zones, protected like...
...sunny afternoon of last June 9, the crowd which swarmed and eddied in & out of the tunnel leading from Chicago's Michigan Boulevard and Randolph Street to the Illinois Central suburban depot, represented a fair cross-section of the human currents passing through any great city...