Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Bay's sets and Mary Grant's costumes have a more than popular charm. But more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real personality...
Elmer Davis, who comes from Indiana and does know better, admitted that the article was badly done (by a White Russian writer he refused to name) and "presented an unfair and inaccurate picture." Then he set about correcting the mistake. For use in the Russian schools, OWI prepared a map of the U.S. showing the vast resources of the prairie states (with Wichita plainly marked as an airplane-manufacturing center). In a forthcoming issue of America Illustrated there would be a new article on the Midwest-by a new author. The writer of the offending paragraphs had been fired...
That same day, three hours before noon, three great, grey ships stood inshore off the east coast of Honshu, 275 miles north of Tokyo. They were the Massachusetts, South Dakota and Indiana; running in tight formation with them were the heavy cruisers Chicago and Quincy (both named for ships sunk at Guadalcanal), while a dozen destroyers scudded around them. Promptly at noon, the big guns began to speak...
Washington dopesters promptly began speculating on his successor. Two best bets: Vermont's Warren Robinson Austin or Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, both able Republicans. Democratic possibilities also mentioned: new Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach or U.S. District Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime Congressman of Indiana...
Throughout the nation, re-gearing itself to the Pacific war and at the same time to the prospects of peace, there were dislocations in industry and among workers. There were strikes. At the Indiana Brass Co., in Elkhart, Ind., police used tear-gas bombs to break up a clash of pickets and workers. In Akron, where 16,700 rubber workers were out, Selective Service was ordered to cancel draft deferments. In 63 specific war-producing areas labor was still tight, but in Detroit, Buffalo and San Francisco workers were losing jobs faster than they could find new ones...