Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame. But for Douglas MacArthur the future looked dark. The best he could reasonably hope for was that he and his men could hang on, delay the Jap, perhaps effectively hamstring some of the forces that the enemy hopes to use on a more important strategic position: Singapore. For want of airplanes, MacArthur had been forced to a bitter decision: make the enemy pay for what he gets...
...retreat farther, Rommel must have his back side clear. He waited for reinforcements to arrive from the west. In a desperate attempt to get troops through, the Axis was using French Tunisia as an arrival base. On the success of this effort the battle of the desert may hang...
...Sound waves from an ordinary auto horn can be used to increase the rate of gasoline distillation by agitating the air in which the condensing molecules and droplets hang. Hence smaller cracking equipment and lower costs are claimed by the patentee of the process, Shell Development Co. of San Francisco. If the blare hurts nearby ears, inaudible supersonics will serve as well...
...President gave the Victory Program its marching orders last week. Biggest problem: how to lick the process by which: 1) Congress appropriates billions of dollars; 2) the Army & Navy swish through paper slips of orders; 3) manufacturers hang the orders on a hook, unable to get the plants, tools, materials and manpower to make the stuff. Most immediate, most terrifying bottleneck, bobbing up like a cork released under water: machine tools. This was the bottleneck of 1940 and 1941, was still guaranteed to last through at least three months...
King Vidor's touch is evident everywhere, and it is essentially his work that makes the picture hang together and follow the book so carefully. Charles Coburn is closer to Harvard, as Harry Pulham's father, than any one else in the cast. The drawbacks of the movie are few, however, and although some Harvard graduates may wince once or twice, America will swallow it all and love...