Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice and a contagious smile. Her name was Deanna Durbin. Today Joe Pasternak has pulled the same trick with pleasant, but not electrifying, results. The name of his find is Gloria Jean and her first picture, "The Underpup." With a none-too realistic rich girls' camp as a back ground, she swings through an enjoyable pastel plot with occasional time-outs to show off a very nice voice. C. Aubrey Smith crashes through again as one of the better parts of the supporting cast. There are also a couple of Katzenjammer Kids who might, with only a small stretch...
...airmen's Mahan is General Giulio Douhet, an Italian artilleryman who survived War I to propound the doctrine that air power is the decisive power. The Douhet theory holds that major wars can be won, and won quickly (while ground troops are mobilized as they are on the Western Front), by unrestricted mass destruction poured on civilian populations, their communications and utilities, from thousands of airplanes carrying hundreds of tons of bombs. So far War II has seen...
...Orleans, Len Eshmont (No. 1 ground gainer last year) was swamped by Tulane's smashing Green Wave-and Fordham, pre-season pride of the East, was beaten (7-to-0) by a team from the Deep South for the second week in a row (last fortnight it lost to Alabama...
...slashed rentals almost 50% ($14 to $7.50 a sq. ft.) in Fair-owned buildings; 2) cut ground rentals 10% for those who had built their own buildings; 3) offered a 50% rent cut to all States exhibiting; 4) advertised sites in the Fair's Town of Tomorrow at a 30% markdown; 5) abolished all charges for removing garbage...
Despite the limitation of 50 men, 75 are now taking the ground courses and have been given Pilot Training certificates in the hope that the Government will grant the increase...