Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King George II, after his restoration in 1935 by a military junta of which Papagos was a member, made the Army popular by insisting on clean barracks. But it was the combined, concentrated brains of Metaxas and Papagos which evolved the mountain strategy and tactics now bearing such startling fruit. Last week Norwegian mountain troops journeyed from Great Britain to get in on the Greek show, and the Swiss applied for permission to come and take notes...
...past year, Hedda Hopper has been the No. i aerial gossip of Hollywood. Thrice weekly over a CBS network she has broadcast tittle-tattle about celluloid hotshots, under the sponsorship of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Supplementing her syndicated newspaper column, Hedda's program has helped her to move in on the domain of Louella Parsons, Hearst's quidnunc extraordinary, who used to have Hollywood in her pudgy palms. Last week Gossip Hopper went swirling to Manhattan to be lionessed at luncheons, ballyhooed all over town...
...they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz saw. But the arrival of sound was tough on Mexicans, who had to follow...
...Alligator" used in recent tests is unfinished, unarmed. But the Navy has notified John David Crummey's Food Machinery Corp., which will manufacture them (they also make spray pumps, peach pitters, fruit cookers), of its intention to buy 200 amphibians (cost: $3,500,000), to be armed and armored against the day when the Marines may again have to take a situation in hand...
...sleekest railroads in the U. S., Louisville & Nashville (coal, manufactures, fruit and vegetables) this week prepared to pay common shareholders a Christmas bonus of $2, boosting 1940 payments to $6 a share ($5 in 1939). Principal beneficiary: volatile, reduced Atlantic Coast Line, 51% owner...