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...scene of a subway accident, the booted and helmeted director at every big fire, and the first male to dare express his disapproval of women's hats. Speaking over a nation-wide radio hook-up, he claimed to be the living inspiration of Walt Disney's little dwarf Grumpy...
Being built by Douglas in Santa Monica, the B19 will easily dwarf all previous U. S. planes, including the newest 41-ton trans-Pacific Clipper, will be half again as large as the outdated 12-motor, 100-passenger German DO-X. The Douglas B19, wingspread 210 ft., four-motored to develop 6,000 h. p., will have a 6,000-mile range, will sleep a ten-man crew. Although an experiment in military plane-building, the B-19 is expected greatly to influence peacetime passenger transport trends...
This ambitious British answer to Germany's war on merchant shipping will require some 200,000 mines, costing at least $1,000 per mine ($200,000,000).* It will dwarf the mine barrage laid in 1918 across the North Sea from the Orkneys to Norway by the U. S. and Great Britain together. That barrage (71,126 mines) took from early March to mid-October to lay. Great Britain's mine-laying fleet is certainly capable of faster work now than then, but manufacturing 200,000 mines will tax her arsenals. Mine mechanism is tricky, requires expert labor...
...noble effort, but in craftsmanship, color, delicacy of treatment and invention, Gulliver's Travels falls considerably short of Snow White, although reminiscent of it: the Prince and Princess (voices by Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross) suggested Snow White and her Prince. A character named Gabby sometimes suggested Dwarf Dopey, sometimes talked like Donald Duck. In place of Snow White's Seven Dwarfs, there were about 700 Lilliputians, funny in their own right. Prodigious are their engineering feats in moving Gulliver from the coast to their diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver...
...close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched from southern Burma to beyond Vladivostok. Moreover, native Chinese businessmen had begun to give not only European and American foreign devils but the despised Japanese "dwarf monkeys" real business competition in the treaty ports and the international settlement...