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Lifeboat (20th Century-Fox] is one of the most ambitious films in years. It begins with a close-up of a foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...paper. Duties of policymakers had been clearly staked out. There was no reason why top men, each one now busy with his new divisions and well-defined duties, should continue to grope and work at cross-purposes. There was to be a new emphasis on departmental administration. Operations would funnel through twelve new "line" officials. The Secretary would be aided in policymaking by two powerful steering committees (Policy & Postwar Programs). There was a well-staffed new Division of Public Information. An Assistant Secretary was to work full time at the essential job of relations with Congress. There was an Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State's Shake-Up | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...attempt to keep warm many of us have purchased a pair of those funnel snuggles, and since they are only made in three sizes some of the boys find themselves looking like the Rockettes in their winter undies...

Author: By A. E. Carpenter jr., | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (SUPPLY CORPS) | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a labor pool and thus funnel the workers into the top priority industry-aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: The Buffalo Plan | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Mariupol, the sea funnel through which the Donets Basin poured out its riches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: On to Kiev | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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