Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King's tanks and all the King's men ranging across the Libyan Desert had not succeeded, in three weeks of fighting, in achieving a single major aim of British strategy. The one apparent success, the relief of long-besieged Tobruk (TIME, Dec. 8), was last week negated by the Germans, who cut the relieving corridor. The two hoped-for successes, bottling the German tank forces and then destroying them, were at least postponed by the same act of cutting. It was accomplished by a convergence on Sidi Rézegh, southeast of Tobruk, of the three main...
...tests, the U.S. tanks had shown they could stand two or three times as much wear as European machines. The engines gave at least 200 hours of hard running between layups for repairs. The rubber treads, characteristic of U.S. tanks, lasted between 2,000 and 2,500 miles in desert tests, against a maximum of 800 for the best track Europe produces. Some reporters wrote that the British thought all-metal treads were better than rubber. The Ordnance Department was ready to bet that the British would soon change their minds...
Sundown (Wanger; United Artists). In East Africa, sundown is the best time of the day. It is quiet then; night is near; and there is nothing to do. There, in a lonely desert outpost, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Reginald Gardiner and other British colonials thwart a Nazi scheme to arm and rouse the natives, in ten reels of old-fashioned romanticadventure melodrama...
Through this dusty plot shuffles blue-eyed Gene Tierney, 21, cast as a sort of desert branch manager of a Bedouin A. & P. Co. chain. Supposedly a half-caste daughter of an Arab trader, she manages to remain as dead-pan as all good Arabs are supposed to be. Of course she turns out to be Miss Graham Fletcher, a British operative...
Producer Walter Wanger, holding tight to the theme of Author Barre Lyndon's original novel, worked overtime to plant his elaborate desert with oases of significance. He made the border skirmish part of Adolf Hitler's so-called plan of navy-less world domination (by conquering the European-Asiatic land mass, thus becoming independent of his enemies' sea power). He also furnished a flag-waving ending. Both devices are more embarrassing than exciting...