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London and Washington promptly got the wind up, fearing a double cross by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who had tacitly promised his country's neutrality in exchange for food. The Generalissimo himself was worried, none too sure at what point the German benefactors would stop. He called a meeting of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Germany to the Rescue | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Speaking at a London luncheon for the R. A. F. American Eagle squadron, impetuous, peripatetic Lady Astor bubbled: "You've no idea how glad people are to be riding in American ambulances." The audience roared, and Nancy blushed. Correcting herself, she said she has seen civilians bombed from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Tall, handsome, fiftyish, with a weakness for dizzy hats, Hedda is rated less inaccurate than most of the gossips, in a notoriously inaccurate field. An impetuous pourer-out, she seldom goes through a show without muffing words, mixing up names. Typical blunder last week was an item praising Jack Dempsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Louella's Rival | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Early in 1940 U. S. Steel Corp. finally drew up a plan for a $35,000,000 project which caused impetuous little President Getulio Vargas to announce that the U. S. and Brazil were at last ready to collaborate. But inability to agree on property rights led U. S. Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Dollars for Ingots | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Three Fox technicians-the late bulky, impetuous Charles Melvin Miller, quiet, balding Robert Stevens and congenial, greying Grover Laube-first commenced work on the 20th Century Camera six years ago in a cubicle of the Fox camera department hidden down an obscure alley of the sprawling studio. For two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Camera | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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