Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short moving picture has been two years in the making. The War Department authorized the film, but Lieut. Paul Vogel, the chief cameraman, had to do his job with old cameras which he pilfered (for the occasion) from Universal. During the shooting of one snowy sequence these tired machines froze up and he had to use an Eyemo...
...heavy artillery barrages settled over Cassino like constant squalls of steel, slicing the buildings down while soldiers fled from the upper to the lower stories, then to the basements. Whole squads disappeared beneath collapsing walls. The limits of the barrage froze something approximating a battle line running through the town, with a No-Man's Land sometimes only ten yards wide. Any soldier who stepped into that strip in daylight was a dead...
...Germans did not hold. Rokos-sovsky's men marched into Mozyr, the Pripet Marshes' second strongest base. This week they headed toward the Wehrmacht's strongest base in the region, Pinsk, 97 miles away. Behind, in the snow-garlanded forests, countless German stragglers froze to death...
Shocking headlines announced last week that Chase National Bank, the nation's biggest, had been indicted under the 26-year-old Trading with the Enemy Act. The details were less appalling. In 1940, under authority of the act, President Roosevelt froze the U.S. funds of all citizens of nations invaded by the Axis. Chase's alleged offense was that it had allowed a refugee Dutch diamond merchant named Leonard J. A. Smit* to withdraw $264,000 from his accounts. Smit, it was charged, had then proceeded to buy industrial diamonds for sale to Japan and Axis-dominated countries...
...three singing Gumm sisters arrived from their home at the edge of the Mojave Desert to play a week of vaudeville at Chicago's Oriental Theater. Their blood froze when they read the marquee legend: THIS WEEK GEORGE JESSEL and THE GLUM SISTERS...