Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the name of war. Britain, her Empire directly challenged for the first time since 1914, is becoming increasingly involved, and appears ready to meet the challenge. France must follow suit; she cannot forsake her ally now, and expect support later when Hitler, pressed by economic necessity, starts his drive towards pan-Germanism. Open British and French opposition will bring Italy and Germany together. Whether the African conflict can be localized or not, the larger conflict can be avoided only by complete economic collapse...
...girl. They are both fine fellows but Allan (Frederic March) has a bit more dash to him and from the start he has held Kitty's (Merie Oberon) undivided affection Gerald (Herbert Marshall), the other chap takes the blow manfully and along comes the War. During the Big Drive Allan disappears into a flurry of bombs and is given up for dead. Gerald returns to the languishing Kitty and years pass. They are just on the verge of wedlock when Gerald discovers that Allan is alive and in England. After a well handled high-tension scene Gerald and Kitty discover...
...President José Luis Tejada Sorzano began behaving as if peace were as good as sealed, announced a "postwar reconstruction program'' to be featured by borrowing, if possible, $25,000,000. This will be spent tapping Bolivia's two-mile-high Lake Titicaca and using the water thus obtained to drive turbines which will whirl dynamos to supply current for the grandiose project of "electrifying all our railroads." Surplus water, according to the President, will be used for vast irrigation projects. The work is to be done by enigmatic Mauricio Hochschild, head of South America's active Hochschild Engineering Co. Last...
...fact that Allison was playing better than ever before in his life, and how much to what happened to Perry in the seventh game of the first set. The first rally in that game ended when Perry fell flat on his face chasing a drive he could not reach. When he got up, he grinned to indicate that he was not hurt but thereafter throughout the match he was noticeably slower than usual, often put his hand to his side in a gesture of pain. After the match, doctors said he had a displaced kidney. Perry refused to comment...
...hardships stoically, for Old Bill always listened to their complaints even when he could do nothing about them. But when the business expanded and a hard young upstart named Don Simpson, who knew a lot about business but nothing about miners, took charge, the men resisted his attempts to drive them, finally went on strike...