Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terrible things happen to a nation's postal service when it's at war. Witness the very thick and very official envelope delivered to David M. Little, Master of Adams House, from the Bureau of the Census in Washington...
...real criticism is that everything in the picture is an excuse for something else that doesn't quite happen. The director spends half an hour of action and dialogue working up to a point where he can get Judy Garland seated at a piano and Mickey Rooney saying. "Oh, even if you can't, let me hear you just for the fun of it," and then she is forced to warble a flock of notes that the Hollywood songwriters bunched together between floor shows at the Brown Derby. Virginia Wilder doesn't help. Well, there is no use in going...
...last blaze at Pearl Harbor had been doused, masses of smoke still billowed on cinema screens, the pictures of wreckage spread angry disaster across newspapers. There was no public cry for a scapegoat, but the nation wanted: 1) to know why the bombing attack had been permitted to happen; 2) to be reassured that it would not happen again...
...excused from schools. The sound of an automobile backfiring, truck wheels rumbling, of ambulance and fire-engine sirens moaning, of the hum of the regular commercial plane bound for New York-all this took on an ominous note....Office windows measured for blackout curtains. The realization that it could happen here has dawned on the city...
Silen's description of the first Japanese bombing of Manila gave listeners in the U.S. plenty to think about. Nothing like it is likely to happen again. Next day R.C.A. relaying of broadcasts from Marrila ceased, not to be resumed for two days and then only under a censorship that required broadcasters to submit their script well in advance of air time. Excerpts of what Bert Silen and his relief announcer Don Bell put on the radio telephone in the shiny moonlight during the first raid...