Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madeleine (20th Century-Fox) is the third spy thriller to be culled from the wartime hush-hush files of the Office of Strategic Services. This one bests both its predecessors (Paramount's O.S.S., Warner's Cloak & Dagger) by a wide margin. In fact, it is as good, nerve-racking fun as any spy chase since The House on 92nd Street, which was worked on by the same competent team (Producer Louis de Rochemont, Director Henry Hathaway, Writer John Monks...
...second year of peace, the foremost U.S.-Canadian problem was the problem of continental defense. But the problem, with its serious and delicate questions of national pride, military strategy and diplomacy, was being discussed on such a high and hush-hush level that Americans and Canadians alike were hearing only snatches, sometimes garbled, of what -was going on. Nevertheless, by last week, as the two nations prepared to meet in Montreal this month on the problem, some of the story could be told...
Last week Torontonians were startled to learn that Casa Loma had been the hush-hushest of all Canadian war plants. In 1942, when the Germans bombed out an English plant making supersecret sonic submarine detectors, the British Admiralty picked the engineering works of William Gorman, in Toronto, to do the job. Bill Corman picked an unlikely spot: the huge Casa Loma's stables...
Retreat. But this time the squatters had blundered. Carleton barracks was not empty. It was being converted into classrooms for 700 reservists and housed an estimated half a million dollars worth of hush-hush asdic, radio and radar equipment. The worried Navy threatened to turn off the water and electricity. Hanratty admitted that Operation Carleton had been "rash," began moving the vets out of the Naval barracks to other squat houses: Kildare, Porter's Island, Argyle, Lansdowne...
...Capitol Hill the echoless chambers of Congress slumbered in the hush of recess. But in the garish ballroom of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt last week a rump session of 34 disgruntled Senators and Representatives chorused a rebel yell...