Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope invested in the San Francisco conference and war's meaning to a child are well illustrated in this composition written by a ten-year-old girl for a school assignment. This child lost her father, a naval flyer, two years ago. How this is reflected is to me significant...
...University of California in 1923 (he had been an un spectacular two-letter man: football, crew). As an independent, he battled the big oil companies for a time on production allotments and in price wars, managed to make himself a sizable business. In 1932, he set off on a flyer in politics, by 1936 was an active and aggressive Democratic party worker...
...prestige had increased. One by one the perverse paladins of the Nazi inner circle gathered around him: ¶ Hermann Goring, the former flyer and drug addict...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers...
...Pilot (Warner), an adaptation of Colonel Robert Lee Scott's best-seller (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943), tells the story of the 34-year-old Georgia flyer who, refusing to believe he was too old for combat, became an ace under General Chennault (Raymond Massey), was forced to land in enemy territory after helping to bomb Hong Kong, and survived to teach Army flyers what he had learned during the lean, heroic days of air warfare in China...