Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this war at least, many an Air Forces officer hopes that Bob Lovett will be able to get self-rule for the air arm. They know what will happen if he does not. The hue & cry for a separate arm, stilled by request of the War Department General Staff few weeks ago (while two bills for separation lay in Congress) will go up again, louder and clearer than ever before...
...pair of reporters of the Philadelphia Record, hearing of the shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...
...possible government measures are concerned, the worst thing that could happen, according to W. F. Hooker, manager of Nutter's System, Inc., would be curtailment by government order of car operation on Sundays and at night. "That would be the end of that part of our business, he said...
...fault at all is to be found with the picture, it is its continual telegraphing of punches. You're pretty sure of what's going to happen before it ever happens. In most movies, this would prove a fatal error. In "All That Money Can Buy" it's simply a minor flaw in an otherwise irreproachable and praiseworthy film. Hollywood can still make good pictures. And ones like this almost make up for most of the bad ones...
...never knows when he begins a novel how it is going to end. He never takes notes on his research. Having a very poor memory, he often has to do research over & over. He never makes carbon copies of his novels. "Something terrible is going to happen as a result," he says, "but I can't write if I've got to fiddle around with carbons in the midst of writing...