Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark blotches in the early frames of your atomic bomb sequence [TIME, Aug. 27] are prints of holes in the photographic gelatin, which resulted from what was perhaps the greatest photographic overexposure ever made in motion pictures. The circles of spurious light in the last four pictures are not ghosts from the nonreflecting coated lenses, but light leaks through a hole designed for a clock or other auxiliary apparatus to be photographed through the side of the camera. The hole had a cover proof against ordinary daylight but not against the super daylight with which the bomb engulfed the camera...
...afternoon last week Clarence Howe, who has worked long & hard as wartime Munitions Minister, squeezed in a round of golf at the Lambton Golf & Country Club (near Toronto). He dropped his indifferent golfing before the 18th hole, headed for the locker room, showered, then went to the club tavern for pie and coffee. Before he finished, six men barged...
...Work, No Pay. In Denver, a prowler climbed a pole, jumped to a third-floor window, broke through a screen into an elevator shaft, leaped to a cable, swung over and kicked open a door to a corridor, climbed through, tried to cut a hole in the floor, finally tired of it all and left lootless...
...Leyte when a Jap bomb killed three men in the same hut with him. This week in Yokosuka harbor he watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
...company got a new president, stocky, pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...