Word: hop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picturing a bowdlerized version of lusty old San Francisco in the 1900s, Miss Faye & Co. tour Pacific Street's colorful saloons, stage a novel roller-skating dance, hop to Europe for a magnificent shot of a Dutch tulip field, and by way of plot attempt to prove that never the Barbary Coast (John Payne) and Nob Hill (Lynn Bari) shall meet. Technicolor does justice to Miss Bari's talents...
...Airlines wants to buy 75% stock ownership in Mexico's twelve-year-old, 1,700-mile Lineas Aereas Mineras, which flies from the U.S. border to Mexico City, other points. Control of L.A.M.S.A. would give United a feeder line into Mexico, put it in a good spot to hop into air-minded South America...
...also granted an application-Pan American's three-year-old petition for a New Orleans-Guatemala City route. Pan American will start service within five weeks, will use four-engine, 33-passenger Boeing clippers for the 1,100-mile over-the-Gulf hop. Biggest advantage: U.S. citizens will have their first south-central international airport (other southern ports: Miami, Los Angeles, Fort Worth and Brownsville, Tex.). Biggest disadvantage: cramped facilities at New Orleans, where the largest hangar leaves three feet of Clipper wingtip in the rain...
Like documentary films, which Hollywood ignored and Britain developed into a vivid educational instrument, documentary radio is old stuff to BBC. It was inaugurated in 1935 by ruddy, jovial Lawrence Gilliam, Cambridgeman and BBC features director. Since then BBC sound trucks have poked about England recording fox hunts, hop-picking festivals, markets, and building them into first-rate documentary radio shows. They also went abroad to record the sounds (sidewalk conversation, café colloquies, shopping talk, parades, music) of foreign cities...
...veteran. Frank J. Cuhel, 38, unmarried and a 1928 Olympic Games hurdler from Iowa, was an export firm's Java representative in 1941. Pearl Harbor changed his life. He became a Mutual Broadcasting System correspondent in the Dutch East Indies, survived many a bombing, got out a hop ahead of the Japs, then broadcast from Australia until last year's end. He did so well that Mutual decided to send him to North Africa...