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...fascist, picks up Bogart and his fellow fugitives in an open boat and they help him, after the line of narration has been broken up by flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks to give us an idea of what nice fellows the convicts were before they were sent to French Guiana. It looked like a justification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/28/1944 | See Source »

...will exhaust its high and medium-grade bauxite deposits (chiefly in Arkansas) in three years. It must then perfect a commercial process for utilizing low-grade bauxite (Alcoa claims to be trying out such a process now) or rely completely on bauxite imports, mainly from British and Dutch Guiana. This would mean that the U.S. might become a have-not nation in the No. 1 raw material of the light-metal age. The last alternative is to resort to producing alumina from clay or other non-bauxites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: The Boy Grew Older | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...onetime All-America halfback; since Oct. 30; over China. His promotion to first lieutenant came one day after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Lieut. Tom Harmon, 1940's top gridiron star, sole survivor of a plane crash in the jungles of French Guiana last April, bagged his first Zero in a raid on Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athletes | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

When French Guiana revolted against Robert and joined both the Fighting French and Giraud, Valentino was freed. He made his way back to Guadeloupe. Last week he was reported to have led an ill-starred uprising against Robert early this month. Expecting support from the crew of the Jeanne d'Arc, lightly armed training ship moored off Pointe-a-Pitre, the rebels took possession of the island's radio station. They got no further. Governor Sorin called on the Jeanne d'Arc's crew for assistance and got it. A salvo from the ship was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUADELOUPE: Valentino's Illusion | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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